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The price of local government in 2017: Old Ripley Township

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The Old Ripley Township budget was $308,614 for its 2017 fiscal year.

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.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
867
$308,614
$84,184
27.3
3
$28,061
2016
867
$402,792
$83,522
20.7
14
$5,966
2015
867
$374,744
$68,567
18.3
15
$4,571
2014
796
$329,822
$69,594
21.1
12
$5,800
2013
796
$336,134
$65,611
19.5
12
$5,468
2012
796
$350,689
$63,431
18.1
12
$5,286
2011
784
$341,223
$60,941
17.9
12
$5,078
2010
786
$332,189
$57,815
17.4
12
$4,818
2009
784
$370,540
$55,973
15.1
12
$4,664
2008
784
$307,805
$58,120
18.9
12
$4,843
2007
784
$349,906
$69,422
19.8
8
$8,678
2006
801
$331,340
$61,293
18.5
5
$12,258
2005
784
$331,071
$58,886
17.8
5
$11,777
2004
784
$461,385
$46,935
10.2
5
$9,387
2003
781
$342,863
$52,031
15.2
7
$7,433
2002
781
$303,282
$52,804
17.4
7
$7,543
2001
796
$306,667
$44,889
14.6
7
$6,413

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

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