That's a decrease of 33.9 percent from 2015, when the township spent $561,694.
Farm Ridge Township has a population of 1,010.
Since 2001, the Farm Ridge Township budget has fallen by 48.4 percent, from $719,443. The township population has grown 3.6 percent over the same period, from 975.
Salaries accounted for 11.4 percent of township spending in 2016. Farm Ridge Township property taxpayers paid $42,450 for one part-time employee, or an average of $42,450 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the township had two part-time employees and spent $43,551, or $21,776 each.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.