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Wednesday, December 25, 2024

The price of local government in 2016: Grand Prairie Township

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The Grand Prairie Township budget was $178,500 for its 2016 fiscal year.

That's a decrease of 9.9 percent from 2015, when the township spent $198,220.

Grand Prairie Township has a population of 800.

Since 2001, the Grand Prairie Township budget has grown by 45.2 percent, from $122,972. The township population has fallen 91.6 percent over the same period, from 9,500.

Salaries accounted for 36.7 percent of township spending in 2016. Grand Prairie Township property taxpayers paid $65,562 for four full-time employees and four part-time employees.

In 2001, the township had five full-time employees and one part-time employee, and spent $48,139.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2016
800
$178,500
$65,562
36.7
8
$8,195
2015
800
$198,220
$61,308
30.9
5
$12,262
2014
800
$140,450
$58,624
41.7
5
$11,725
2013
800
$119,880
$48,070
40.1
4
$12,017
2012
800
$123,170
$64,296
52.2
4
$16,074
2011
800
$154,810
$73,598
47.5
5
$14,720
2010
800
$125,400
$54,269
43.3
5
$10,854
2009
800
$184,275
$53,306
28.9
5
$10,661
2008
800
$140,400
$60,727
43.3
5
$12,145
2007
750
$116,510
$50,037
42.9
5
$10,007
2006
750
$134,375
$51,333
38.2
5
$10,267
2005
750
$113,565
$54,241
47.8
5
$10,848
2004
750
$154,100
$49,561
32.2
5
$9,912
2003
750
$103,360
$52,243
50.5
5
$10,449
2002
950
$133,000
$51,682
38.9
5
$10,336
2001
9,500
$122,972
$48,139
39.1
6
$8,023

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

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