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The price of local government: Village of Bellflower

Budget 06

The Village of Bellflower budget was $140,428.50 for its 2015 fiscal year, or $1,265.12 per household.

That's a decrease of 9.1 percent from 2014, when the village spent $154,463.95, or $1,391.57 per household.

Bellflower has 111 households and a population of 357.

Since 2001, the Village of Bellflower budget has fallen by 65.7 percent, from $409,453.27. The village population has fallen 15 percent over the same period, from 420.

Salaries accounted for 17.5 percent of village spending in 2015. Bellflower property taxpayers paid $24,559.56 for 14 part-time employees, or an average of $1,754.25 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the village had three part-time employees and spent $20,550, or $6,850 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2015
357
$140,428.50
$24,559.56
17.5
14
$1,754.25
2014
357
$154,463.95
$29,257.15
18.9
14
$2,089.79
2013
357
$155,963.60
$26,443.04
17
14
$1,888.78
2012
357
$179,834.30
$26,951.56
15
14
$1,925.11
2011
357
$215,973
$28,310.04
13.1
14
$2,022.14
2010
408
$235,096.89
$29,265.15
12.4
15
$1,951.01
2009
408
$219,354.47
$26,872.53
12.3
16
$1,679.53
2008
408
$208,167.47
$28,731.38
13.8
16
$1,795.71
2007
408
$212,256.72
$27,162.72
12.8
16
$1,697.67
2006
408
$219,814.80
$29,191.20
13.3
16
$1,824.45
2005
408
$182,647.04
$31,725.40
17.4
16
$1,982.83
2004
408
$256,802.88
$36,141.93
14.1
16
$2,258.87
2003
421
$277,664.64
$35,707.32
12.9
6
$5,951.22
2002
420
$283,975.20
$35,175.60
12.4
3
$11,725.19
2001
420
$409,453.27
$20,550
5
3
$6,850

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

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