That's a decrease of 31.2 percent from 2014, when the village spent $638,831.75, or $7,098.13 per household.
Metcalf has 90 households and a population of 189.
Since 2001, the Village of Metcalf budget has grown by 266.7 percent, from $119,888.70. The village population has fallen 24.4 percent over the same period, from 250.
Salaries accounted for 4.1 percent of village spending in 2015. Metcalf property taxpayers paid $17,881.62 for 11 part-time employees, or an average of $1,625.60 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the village had 15 part-time employees and spent $18,273.06, or $1,218.20 each.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.