That's an increase of 4.9 percent from 2016, when the township spent $944,528.
Centralia Township has a population of 15,072.
Since 2001, the Centralia Township budget has fallen by 20.7 percent, from $1.25 million. The township population has fallen 8.8 percent over the same period, from 16,533.
Salaries accounted for 31.8 percent of township spending in 2017. Centralia Township property taxpayers paid $314,795 for 13 part-time employees, or an average of $24,215 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.