That's an increase of 0.9 percent from 2015, when the village spent $3.42 million, or $12,029 per household.
Ringwood has 284 households and a population of 820.
Since 2001, the Village of Ringwood budget has grown by 178 percent, from $1.24 million. The village population has grown 42.6 percent over the same period, from 575.
Salaries accounted for 1.5 percent of village spending in 2016. Ringwood property taxpayers paid $51,849 for three part-time employees, or an average of $17,283 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the village had two part-time employees and spent $10,650, or $5,325 each.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.