That's a decrease of 40.1 percent from 2016, when the village spent $84,764, or $1,265 per household.
Papineau has 67 households and a population of 180.
Since 2002, the Village of Papineau budget has fallen by 47.4 percent, from $96,530. The village population has grown 0.6 percent over the same period, from 179.
Salaries accounted for 4.5 percent of village spending in 2017. Papineau property taxpayers paid $2,295 for eight part-time employees, or an average of $287 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2002, the village had eight part-time employees and spent $3,697, or $462 each.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.