That's an increase of 28.2 percent from 2016, when the village spent $247,275, or $4,579 per household.
St. Augustine has 54 households and a population of 150.
Since 2001, the Village of St. Augustine budget has grown by 650.7 percent, from $42,245. The village population has fallen 0.7 percent over the same period, from 151.
Salaries accounted for 3.6 percent of village spending in 2017. St. Augustine property taxpayers paid $11,567 for 12 part-time employees, or an average of $964 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the village had four part-time employees and spent $19,234, or $4,808 each.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.