That's an increase of 12.8 percent from 2014, when the village spent $162,729.70, or $678.04 per household.
Makanda has 240 households and a population of 547.
Since 2001, the Village of Makanda budget has grown by 42.5 percent, from $128,745.75. The village population has grown 30.5 percent over the same period, from 419.
Salaries accounted for 7.1 percent of village spending in 2015. Makanda property taxpayers paid $13,056 for 11 part-time employees, or an average of $1,186.91 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the village had nine part-time employees and spent $11,028.50, or $1,225.39 each.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.