The Village of Cypress budget was $204,094 for its 2016 fiscal year, or $1,633 per household.

That's an increase of 2.6 percent from 2015, when the village spent $198,856, or $1,591 per household.

Cypress has 125 households and a population of 234.

Since 2001, the Village of Cypress budget has grown by 226.7 percent, from $62,480. The village population has fallen 13.7 percent over the same period, from 271.

Salaries accounted for 5.8 percent of village spending in 2016. Cypress property taxpayers paid $11,898 for three part-time employees, or an average of $3,966 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the village had two part-time employees and spent $14,846, or $7,423 each.

All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.