That's an increase of 134.3 percent from 2014, when the village spent $171,599.03, or $2,908.46 per household.
Bishop Hill has 59 households and a population of 150.
Since 2001, the Village of Bishop Hill budget has grown by 172.5 percent, from $147,528.45. The village population has remained same.
Salaries accounted for two percent of village spending in 2015. Bishop Hill property taxpayers paid $7,894.80 for 10 part-time employees, or an average of $789.48 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the village had nine part-time employees and spent $9,932.50, or $1,103.61 each.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.