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The price of local government: Village of Dakota

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The Village of Dakota budget was $206,499 for its 2015 fiscal year, or $947.24 per household.

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.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2015
475
$206,499
$31,061.04
15
17
$1,827.12
2014
493
$226,033.50
$35,655.51
15.8
16
$2,228.46
2013
475
$271,908
$30,687.28
11.3
15
$2,045.81
2012
475
$260,548
$31,809.54
12.2
19
$1,674.18
2010
473
$272,505
$32,531.88
11.9
16
$2,033.24
2008
473
$180,348
$22,971.77
12.7
8
$2,871.47
2007
482
$269,334
$24,312.60
9
8
$3,039.07
2006
489
$160,680
$27,246
17
8
$3,405.75
2005
550
$180,792
$22,199.72
12.3
8
$2,774.96
2004
499
$270,513
$27,902.70
10.3
8
$3,487.83
2003
499
$296,901
$28,071.12
9.5
8
$3,508.89
2002
550
$256,425.75
$29,482.65
11.5
3
$9,827.55
2001
550
$103,263.75
$29,419.38
28.5
3
$9,806.46

All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.

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