That's a decrease of 2.9 percent from 2016, when the village spent $263,865, or $4,629 per household.
Harvel has 57 households and a population of 223.
Since 2001, the Village of Harvel budget has grown by 0.4 percent, from $255,256. The village population has fallen 5.1 percent over the same period, from 235.
Salaries accounted for 6.5 percent of village spending in 2017. Harvel property taxpayers paid $16,601 for four part-time employees, or an average of $4,150 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the village had two part-time employees and spent $11,391, or $5,696 each.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.