That's a decrease of 32.9 percent from 2014, when the village spent $95,790, or $1,113.84 per household.
New Grand Chain has 86 households and a population of 210.
Since 2001, the Village of New Grand Chain budget has fallen by 55.9 percent, from $145,657.03. The village population has fallen 23.1 percent over the same period, from 273.
Salaries accounted for 20 percent of village spending in 2015. New Grand Chain property taxpayers paid $12,830.58 for four part-time employees, or an average of $3,207.65 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the village had one full-time employee and eight part-time employees, and spent $21,969.32.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.