Sangamon Sun

The Village of Broadwell budget was $128,882.10 for its 2015 fiscal year, or $3,143.47 per household.

That's an increase of 10.6 percent from 2014, when the village spent $116,539.35, or $2,842.42 per household.

Broadwell has 41 households and a population of 147.

Since 2001, the Village of Broadwell budget has fallen by 84.1 percent, from $809,642.60. The village population has fallen 13 percent over the same period, from 169.

Salaries accounted for 3.5 percent of village spending in 2015. Broadwell property taxpayers paid $4,484.94 for nine part-time employees, or an average of $498.33 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

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