That's an increase of 3.9 percent from 2014, when the village spent $175,383.25, or $1,414.38 per household.
Wellington has 124 households and a population of 264.
Since 2001, the Village of Wellington budget has fallen by 28.2 percent, from $253,696.60. The village population has fallen 10.2 percent over the same period, from 294.
Salaries accounted for 11 percent of village spending in 2015. Wellington property taxpayers paid $20,017.50 for five part-time employees, or an average of $4,003.50 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the village had one full-time employee and six part-time employees, and spent $13,753.43.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.