That's a decrease of 8.6 percent from 2014, when the village spent $226,033.50, or $1,036.85 per household.
Dakota has 218 households and a population of 475.
Since 2001, the Village of Dakota budget has grown by 100 percent, from $103,263.75. The village population has fallen 13.6 percent over the same period, from 550.
Salaries accounted for 15 percent of village spending in 2015. Dakota property taxpayers paid $31,061.04 for 17 part-time employees, or an average of $1,827.12 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the village had three part-time employees and spent $29,419.38, or $9,806.46 each.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.