That's a decrease of 66.3 percent from 2016, when the village spent $1.50 million, or $9,014 per household.
Congerville has 166 households and a population of 474.
Since 2001, the Village of Congerville budget has fallen by 13.3 percent, from $582,200. The village population has grown 1.7 percent over the same period, from 466.
Salaries accounted for 13.5 percent of village spending in 2017. Congerville property taxpayers paid $68,038 for four part-time employees, or an average of $17,010 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the village had seven part-time employees and spent $31,924, or $4,561 each.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.