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The price of local government in 2017: Lone Grove Township

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The Lone Grove Township budget was $120,021 for its 2017 fiscal year.

That's a decrease of 43.8 percent from 2016, when the township spent $213,675.

Lone Grove Township has a population of 1,200.

Since 2001, the Lone Grove Township budget has grown by 24.3 percent, from $96,560. The township population has grown 69.7 percent over the same period, from 707.

Salaries accounted for 28.4 percent of township spending in 2017. Lone Grove Township property taxpayers paid $34,023 for 11 part-time employees, or an average of $3,093 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the township had seven full-time employees and one part-time employee, and spent $22,379.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
1,200
$120,021
$34,023
28.3
11
$3,093
2016
1,200
$213,675
$5,093
2.4
2
$2,546
2015
1,200
$138,535
$4,910
3.5
2
$2,455
2014
656
$105,070
$23,427
22.3
8
$2,928
2013
656
$128,234
$28,372
22.1
10
$2,837
2012
656
$54,003
$23,622
43.7
8
$2,953
2011
656
$53,326
$24,116
45.2
8
$3,015
2010
707
$56,245
$22,931
40.8
8
$2,866
2009
707
$125,202
$23,289
18.6
10
$2,329
2008
707
$54,125
$26,119
48.3
8
$3,265
2007
707
$57,421
$27,748
48.3
8
$3,468
2006
707
$56,815
$29,085
51.2
8
$3,636
2005
750
$118,183
$27,854
23.6
10
$2,785
2004
707
$58,746
$27,735
47.2
8
$3,467
2003
707
$330,189
$28,704
8.7
8
$3,588
2002
707
$58,107
$30,191
52
8
$3,774
2001
707
$96,560
$22,379
23.2
8
$2,797

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

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