That's an increase of 289.4 percent from 2014, when the village spent $203,061.41, or $2,030.61 per household.
Joppa has 100 households and a population of 348.
Since 2001, the Village of Joppa budget has grown by 54.7 percent, from $511,126.45. The village population has fallen 30.4 percent over the same period, from 500.
Salaries accounted for 5.2 percent of village spending in 2015. Joppa property taxpayers paid $40,976.46 for two part-time employees, or an average of $20,488.23 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the village had one full-time employee and four part-time employees, and spent $91,251.59.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.