That's a decrease of 20.7 percent from 2014, when the village spent $21,836, or $559.90 per household.
Ellisville has 39 households and a population of 86.
Since 2001, the Village of Ellisville budget has fallen by 34.5 percent, from $26,442.37. The village population has fallen 1.1 percent over the same period, from 87.
Salaries accounted for 10 percent of village spending in 2015. Ellisville property taxpayers paid $1,734 for 12 part-time employees, or an average of $144.50 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the village had nine part-time employees and spent $2,338.59, or $259.84 each.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.