That's an increase of 42.5 percent from 2015, when the village spent $165,466, or $2,121 per household.
New Minden has 78 households and a population of 207.
Since 2001, the Village of New Minden budget has grown by 27575.9 percent, from $852. The village population has fallen 5.5 percent over the same period, from 219.
Salaries accounted for 11.3 percent of village spending in 2016. New Minden property taxpayers paid $26,609 for 13 part-time employees, or an average of $2,047 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the village had 13 part-time employees and spent $18,842, or $1,449 each.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.