That's a decrease of 9.4 percent from 2015, when the township spent $1.04 million.
Centralia Township has a population of 15,072.
Since 2001, the Centralia Township budget has fallen by 24.4 percent, from $1.25 million. The township population has fallen 8.8 percent over the same period, from 16,533.
Salaries accounted for 34.6 percent of township spending in 2016. Centralia Township property taxpayers paid $326,543 for 14 part-time employees, or an average of $23,324 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the township had 13 full-time employees and nine part-time employees, and spent $401,931.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.