That's a decrease of 2.9 percent from 2016, when the village spent $300,825, or $2,296 per household.
Latham has 131 households and a population of 378.
Since 2001, the Village of Latham budget has fallen by 16 percent, from $348,042. The village population has fallen one percent over the same period, from 382.
Salaries accounted for nine percent of village spending in 2017. Latham property taxpayers paid $26,398 for 13 part-time employees, or an average of $2,031 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the village had four part-time employees and spent $40,592, or $10,148 each.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.