Sangamon Sun

The Village of Berlin budget was $35,700 for its 2016 fiscal year, or $503 per household.

That's a decrease of 37.2 percent from 2015, when the village spent $56,816, or $800 per household.

Berlin has 71 households and a population of 180.

Since 2001, the Village of Berlin budget has grown by eight percent, from $33,043. The village population has remained same.

Salaries accounted for 19.9 percent of village spending in 2016. Berlin property taxpayers paid $7,088 for nine part-time employees, or an average of $788 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

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