That's a decrease of 23.4 percent from 2016, when the township spent $402,792.
Old Ripley Township has a population of 867.
Since 2001, the Old Ripley Township budget has grown by 0.6 percent, from $306,667. The township population has grown 8.9 percent over the same period, from 796.
Salaries accounted for 27.3 percent of township spending in 2017. Old Ripley Township property taxpayers paid $84,184 for three full-time employees, or an average of $28,061 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the township had one full-time employee and six part-time employees, and spent $44,889.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.