That's a decrease of 32.5 percent from 2015, when the village spent $62,413, or $1,300 per household.
Scottville has 48 households and a population of 116.
Since 2001, the Village of Scottville budget has grown by 12.4 percent, from $37,488. The village population has fallen 30.5 percent over the same period, from 167.
Salaries accounted for 12.5 percent of village spending in 2016. Scottville property taxpayers paid $5,249 for five part-time employees, or an average of $1,050 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the village had seven full-time employees and spent $5,992, or $856 each.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.