That's a decrease of 2.9 percent from 2016, when the village spent $253,418, or $1,293 per household.
West Brooklyn has 196 households and a population of 142.
Since 2001, the Village of West Brooklyn budget has grown by 204.4 percent, from $80,869. The village population has fallen 13.4 percent over the same period, from 164.
Salaries accounted for 4.6 percent of village spending in 2017. West Brooklyn property taxpayers paid $11,368 for 11 part-time employees, or an average of $1,033 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the village had 11 part-time employees and spent $7,491, or $681 each.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.