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Wednesday, May 1, 2024

The price of local government: City of Georgetown

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The City of Georgetown budget was $819,515.94 for its 2015 fiscal year, or $604.36 per household.

That's an increase of 4.8 percent from 2014, when the city spent $781,868.88, or $576.60 per household.

Georgetown has 1,356 households and a population of 3,421.

Since 2001, the City of Georgetown budget has fallen by 26.3 percent, from $1.11 million. The city population has fallen 5.7 percent over the same period, from 3,628.

Salaries accounted for 77.7 percent of city spending in 2015. Georgetown property taxpayers paid $636,720.72 for 15 full-time employees and five part-time employees.

In 2001, the city had nine full-time employees and 15 part-time employees, and spent $639,611.90.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2015
3,421
$819,515.94
$636,720.72
77.7
20
$31,836.03
2014
3,421
$781,868.88
$639,339.54
81.8
20
$31,966.97
2013
3,436
$755,012.96
$570,581.44
75.6
27
$21,132.64
2012
3,700
$2,131,905.92
$627,034.52
29.4
25
$25,081.38
2011
3,678
$757,243.08
$603,879.84
79.7
28
$21,567.13
2010
3,628
$861,651.93
$588,970.44
68.4
36
$16,360.29
2009
3,628
$1,000,970.95
$590,757.22
59
38
$15,546.24
2008
3,628
$970,653.05
$575,229.89
59.3
38
$15,137.62
2007
3,628
$986,617.71
$567,125.91
57.5
31
$18,294.38
2006
3,628
$927,546
$572,882.40
61.8
31
$18,480.07
2005
3,628
$903,125.48
$564,133.04
62.5
22
$25,642.41
2004
3,628
$952,920.42
$626,151.81
65.7
24
$26,089.65
2003
3,628
$859,656.60
$603,320.52
70.2
24
$25,138.35
2002
3,628
$1,183,084.65
$626,325.75
52.9
24
$26,096.90
2001
3,628
$1,112,355.06
$639,611.90
57.5
24
$26,650.49

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

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