The village of Rapids City budget was $1.03 million for its 2015 fiscal year, or $2,475.42 per household.
That's a decrease of 11.3 percent from 2014 when the city spent $1.17 million, or $2,791.17 per household.
Rapids has 418 households and a population of 959.
Since 2001, the village of Rapids City budget has grown by 19.5 percent, from $865,924.94. The city population has grown 0.6 percent over the same period, from 953.
Salaries accounted for 18.3 percent of city spending in 2015. Rapids property taxpayers paid $189,090.66 for three full-time employees and 12 part-time employees.
In 2001, the city had three full-time employees and one part-time employee and spent $154,542.85.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.