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The price of local government: Village of Forest View

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The Village of Forest View budget was $7.30 million for its 2015 fiscal year, or $26,254.77 per household.

That's a decrease of 7.5 percent from 2014, when the village spent $7.89 million, or $28,397.62 per household.

Forest View has 278 households and a population of 698.

Since 2001, the Village of Forest View budget has grown by 33.4 percent, from $5.47 million. The village population has fallen 10.3 percent over the same period, from 778.

Salaries accounted for 29.6 percent of village spending in 2015. Forest View property taxpayers paid $2.16 million for 19 full-time employees and 52 part-time employees.

In 2001, the village had 18 full-time employees and 38 part-time employees, and spent $478,728.69.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2015
698
$7,298,826.24
$2,160,970.98
29.6
71
$30,436.21
2014
698
$7,894,538
$2,147,155.51
27.2
64
$33,549.30
2013
698
$6,478,160
$2,155,482.16
33.3
64
$33,679.40
2012
698
$6,369,789.10
$2,054,987.02
32.3
64
$32,109.17
2011
713
$6,046,272
$1,948,932.36
32.2
63
$30,935.43
2010
713
$7,875,117
$2,247,293.79
28.5
63
$35,671.32
2009
778
$8,068,539
$2,330,090.51
28.9
63
$36,985.56
2008
778
$10,077,679
$1,846,233.55
18.3
63
$29,305.29
2007
778
$9,452,898
$1,941,790.50
20.5
60
$32,363.17
2006
778
$7,367,880
$1,866,844.80
25.3
64
$29,169.45
2005
778
$6,118,532
$1,845,236.56
30.2
68
$27,135.83
2004
778
$1,005,071.25
$1,812,532.56
180.3
61
$29,713.64
2003
788
$5,975,937
$1,765,196.40
29.5
62
$28,470.90
2002
778
$5,941,215
$1,655,328.15
27.9
64
$25,864.50
2001
778
$5,472,191
$478,728.69
8.7
56
$8,548.72

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

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