That's a decrease of 12.1 percent from 2013, when the village spent $317,642, or $2,715 per household.
Gladstone has 117 households and a population of 285.
Since 2001, the Village of Gladstone budget has grown by 96.5 percent, from $142,071. The village population has fallen five percent over the same period, from 300.
Salaries accounted for 7.4 percent of village spending in 2017. Gladstone property taxpayers paid $20,778 for 10 part-time employees, or an average of $2,078 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the village had 12 part-time employees and spent $12,415, or $1,035 each.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.