That's an increase of 42.6 percent from 2016, when the village spent $42,126, or $878 per household.
Scottville has 48 households and a population of 116.
Since 2001, the Village of Scottville budget has grown by 60.2 percent, from $37,488. The village population has fallen 30.5 percent over the same period, from 167.
Salaries accounted for 8.6 percent of village spending in 2017. Scottville property taxpayers paid $5,168 for five part-time employees, or an average of $1,034 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.