That's an increase of 8.9 percent from 2015, when the village spent $1.10 million, or $3,781 per household.
Valier has 290 households and a population of 664.
Since 2001, the Village of Valier budget has grown by 70.8 percent, from $699,386. The village population has fallen 6.2 percent over the same period, from 708.
Salaries accounted for 10.9 percent of village spending in 2016. Valier property taxpayers paid $129,942 for five full-time employees, or an average of $25,988 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the village had five full-time employees and one part-time employee, and spent $100,052.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.