East Central Reporter

The Village of Iola budget was $172,576 for its 2016 fiscal year, or $6,638 per household.

That's a decrease of 1.9 percent from 2015, when the village spent $175,960, or $6,768 per household.

Iola has 26 households and a population of 141.

Since 2001, the Village of Iola budget has grown by 179.9 percent, from $61,656. The village population has fallen 17.5 percent over the same period, from 171.

Salaries accounted for 7.1 percent of village spending in 2016. Iola property taxpayers paid $12,252 for three part-time employees, or an average of $4,084 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

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