That's an increase of 7.4 percent from 2014, when the village spent $133,900, or $1,521.59 per household.
Claremont has 88 households and a population of 342.
Since 2001, the Village of Claremont budget has grown by 26.1 percent, from $114,077.16. The village population has grown 14 percent over the same period, from 300.
Salaries accounted for 13.7 percent of village spending in 2015. Claremont property taxpayers paid $19,642.14 for eight part-time employees, or an average of $2,455.27 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the village had two full-time employees and two part-time employees, and spent $9,958.53.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.