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