That's a decrease of 9.5 percent from 2014, when the village spent $549,714.09, or $3,393.30 per household.
Monroe Center has 162 households and a population of 471.
Since 2005, the Village of Monroe Center budget has grown by 418.3 percent, from $95,976. The village population has fallen 4.7 percent over the same period, from 494.
Salaries accounted for 4.2 percent of village spending in 2015. Monroe Center property taxpayers paid $20,988.54 for 10 part-time employees, or an average of $2,098.85 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2005, the village had two part-time employees and spent $1,488, or $744 each.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.