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The price of local government in 2017: Garden Hill Township

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The Garden Hill Township budget was $44,091 for its 2017 fiscal year.

That's an increase of 3.1 percent from 2016, when the township spent $42,746.

Garden Hill Township has a population of 145.

Since 2001, the Garden Hill Township budget has fallen by 43.8 percent, from $78,384. The township population has grown 0.7 percent over the same period, from 144.

Salaries accounted for 29.6 percent of township spending in 2017. Garden Hill Township property taxpayers paid $13,066 for seven part-time employees, or an average of $1,867 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the township had seven part-time employees and spent $12,106, or $1,729 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
145
$44,091
$13,066
29.6
7
$1,867
2016
145
$42,746
$13,482
31.5
7
$1,926
2015
145
$41,617
$13,451
32.3
7
$1,922
2014
145
$39,763
$13,376
33.6
7
$1,911
2013
145
$43,001
$12,593
29.3
7
$1,799
2012
145
$57,621
$12,611
21.9
7
$1,802
2011
145
$61,253
$14,475
23.6
7
$2,068
2010
140
$101,226
$14,581
14.4
7
$2,083
2009
140
$66,010
$13,619
20.6
7
$1,946
2008
140
$59,503
$13,689
23
7
$1,956
2007
140
$499,351
$14,237
2.9
7
$2,034
2006
140
$149,243
$14,663
9.8
7
$2,095
2005
140
$55,644
$15,171
27.3
7
$2,167
2004
140
$48,414
$18,827
38.9
7
$2,690
2003
140
$32,489
$19,108
58.8
7
$2,730
2002
144
$33,453
$16,548
49.5
7
$2,364
2001
144
$78,384
$12,106
15.4
7
$1,729

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

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