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Wednesday, December 25, 2024

The price of local government in 2017: Ashley Township

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The Ashley Township budget was $383,974 for its 2017 fiscal year.

That's a decrease of 2.2 percent from 2016, when the township spent $392,480.

Ashley Township has a population of 816.

Since 2001, the Ashley Township budget has grown by 80.8 percent, from $212,361. The township population has fallen 3.7 percent over the same period, from 847.

Salaries accounted for 6.4 percent of township spending in 2017. Ashley Township property taxpayers paid $24,475 for seven part-time employees, or an average of $3,496 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the township had eight part-time employees and spent $24,971, or $3,121 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
816
$383,974
$24,475
6.4
7
$3,496
2016
816
$392,480
$25,195
6.4
7
$3,599
2015
816
$379,810
$25,435
6.7
7
$3,634
2014
816
$357,125
$25,567
7.2
7
$3,652
2013
816
$355,099
$19,695
5.5
7
$2,814
2012
816
$343,263
$20,295
5.9
9
$2,255
2011
922
$324,892
$21,042
6.5
9
$2,338
2010
922
$307,002
$21,638
7
9
$2,404
2009
922
$305,165
$21,736
7.1
7
$3,105
2008
922
$292,933
$22,572
7.7
7
$3,225
2007
922
$281,478
$19,404
6.9
7
$2,772
2006
922
$246,825
$24,526
9.9
10
$2,453
2005
922
$237,543
$27,364
11.5
8
$3,420
2004
922
$193,536
$27,494
14.2
8
$3,437
2003
922
$227,868
$25,877
11.4
10
$2,588
2002
922
$209,370
$30,051
14.4
12
$2,504
2001
847
$212,361
$24,971
11.8
8
$3,121

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

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