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The price of local government in 2016: Scottville Township

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The Scottville Township budget was $77,975 for its 2016 fiscal year.

That's a decrease of 7.7 percent from 2015, when the township spent $84,461.

Scottville Township has a population of 500.

Since 2001, the Scottville Township budget has fallen by 70.5 percent, from $264,344. The township population has fallen 4.8 percent over the same period, from 525.

Salaries accounted for 35.2 percent of township spending in 2016. Scottville Township property taxpayers paid $27,420 for four part-time employees, or an average of $6,855 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the township had one full-time employee and seven part-time employees, and spent $49,176.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2016
500
$77,975
$27,420
35.2
4
$6,855
2015
500
$84,461
$27,872
33
4
$6,968
2014
500
$280,391
$30,817
11
4
$7,704
2013
500
$285,682
$18,775
6.6
4
$4,694
2012
500
$436,000
$21,800
5
3
$7,267
2009
500
$468,000
$21,448
4.6
4
$5,362
2008
525
$65,680
$30,563
46.5
3
$10,188
2007
550
$81,211
$19,125
23.5
3
$6,375
2006
550
$72,318
$20,316
28.1
4
$5,079
2005
515
$88,326
$35,829
40.6
3
$11,943
2004
515
$76,702
$35,519
46.3
3
$11,840
2003
605
$62,691
$34,340
54.8
3
$11,447
2002
550
$88,691
$24,417
27.5
5
$4,883
2001
525
$264,344
$49,176
18.6
8
$6,147

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

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