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Thursday, November 28, 2024

The price of local government in 2017: Lake Villa Township

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The Lake Villa Township budget was $6.05 million for its 2017 fiscal year.

That's a decrease of 4.9 percent from 2016, when the township spent $6.37 million.

Lake Villa Township has a population of 8,788.

Since 2001, the Lake Villa Township budget has grown by 26.1 percent, from $4.80 million. The township population has fallen 64.8 percent over the same period, from 25,000.

Salaries accounted for 23.8 percent of township spending in 2017. Lake Villa Township property taxpayers paid $1.44 million for 21 full-time employees and 42 part-time employees.

In 2001, the township had 23 full-time employees and two part-time employees, and spent $980,144.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
8,788
$6,052,017
$1,442,446
23.8
63
$22,896
2016
40,317
$6,365,814
$1,394,462
21.9
48
$29,051
2015
8,788
$6,024,595
$1,372,896
22.8
53
$25,904
2014
8,788
$5,938,311
$1,371,897
23.1
46
$29,824
2013
40,276
$5,346,162
$1,318,891
24.7
40
$32,972
2012
40,276
$5,741,303
$1,247,021
21.7
38
$32,816
2011
40,276
$5,282,722
$1,282,699
24.3
30
$42,757
2010
83,201
$4,965,930
$1,345,478
27.1
36
$37,374
2009
35,000
$5,660,343
$1,249,813
22.1
37
$33,779
2008
35,000
$4,252,267
$1,099,066
25.8
32
$34,346
2007
34,000
$6,141,460
$1,152,939
18.8
37
$31,161
2006
34,000
$6,518,539
$1,131,646
17.4
30
$37,722
2005
34,000
$6,160,661
$1,076,781
17.5
31
$34,735
2004
34,000
$4,642,258
$1,096,271
23.6
28
$39,153
2003
33,000
$4,074,590
$1,066,511
26.2
28
$38,090
2002
30,000
$4,633,642
$1,012,306
21.8
28
$36,154
2001
25,000
$4,797,797
$980,144
20.4
25
$39,206

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

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