That's a decrease of 1.8 percent from 2016, when the village spent $247,800, or $2,881 per household.
Mill Shoals has 86 households and a population of 215.
Since 2001, the Village of Mill Shoals budget has grown by 12 percent, from $217,260. The village population has fallen 14 percent over the same period, from 250.
Salaries accounted for 19.7 percent of village spending in 2017. Mill Shoals property taxpayers paid $47,871 for five part-time employees, or an average of $9,574 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the village had five full-time employees and spent $27,853, or $5,571 each.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.