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Tuesday, April 23, 2024

The price of local government: Village of Cherry

Budget 10

The Village of Cherry budget was $267,138 for its 2015 fiscal year, or $1,571.40 per household.

That's a decrease of 1.9 percent from 2014, when the village spent $272,229, or $1,601.35 per household.

Cherry has 170 households and a population of 482.

Since 2001, the Village of Cherry budget has grown by 53.9 percent, from $173,633.80. The village population has fallen 5.3 percent over the same period, from 509.

Salaries accounted for 13.3 percent of village spending in 2015. Cherry property taxpayers paid $35,606.16 for 14 part-time employees, or an average of $2,543.30 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the village had 14 part-time employees and spent $33,569.11, or $2,397.79 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2015
482
$267,138
$35,606.16
13.3
14
$2,543.29
2014
483
$272,229
$33,977.64
12.5
17
$1,998.68
2013
482
$338,260
$33,942.48
10
17
$1,996.61
2012
482
$220,268
$43,377.32
19.7
16
$2,711.08
2011
509
$288,144
$47,416.32
16.5
16
$2,963.52
2010
509
$274,281
$50,675.94
18.5
17
$2,980.93
2009
509
$312,784
$42,981.81
13.7
16
$2,686.36
2008
509
$328,265
$30,515.65
9.3
16
$1,907.22
2007
509
$291,996.90
$39,292.11
13.5
16
$2,455.75
2006
509
$266,904
$34,311.60
12.9
19
$1,805.87
2005
509
$229,028
$34,438.52
15
12
$2,869.87
2004
509
$383,047.44
$34,445.58
9
12
$2,870.46
2003
509
$289,231.80
$34,510.08
11.9
12
$2,875.84
2002
509
$294,637.50
$37,605.60
12.8
15
$2,507.04
2001
509
$173,633.80
$33,569.11
19.3
14
$2,397.79

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

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