That's a decrease of 2.9 percent from 2016, when the village spent $190,341, or $902 per household.
Bellflower has 211 households and a population of 357.
Since 2001, the Village of Bellflower budget has fallen by 56.4 percent, from $424,397. The village population has fallen 15 percent over the same period, from 420.
Salaries accounted for 18.8 percent of village spending in 2017. Bellflower property taxpayers paid $34,719 for 14 part-time employees, or an average of $2,480 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the village had three part-time employees and spent $21,300, or $7,100 each.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.