That's a decrease of 2.9 percent from 2016, when the township spent $338,166.
Hope Township has a population of 689.
Since 2001, the Hope Township budget has grown by 50 percent, from $218,964. The township population has grown 0.7 percent over the same period, from 684.
Salaries accounted for 12 percent of township spending in 2017. Hope Township property taxpayers paid $39,433 for one full-time employee and 17 part-time employees.
In 2001, the township had one full-time employee and seven part-time employees, and spent $47,806.
Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
689
$328,504
$39,433
12
18
$2,191
2016
626
$338,166
$31,331
9.3
8
$3,916
2015
689
$346,687
$35,856
10.3
8
$4,482
2014
689
$296,337
$39,286
13.3
8
$4,911
2013
689
$248,468
$39,295
15.8
8
$4,912
2012
684
$289,518
$33,317
11.5
8
$4,165
2011
684
$310,569
$36,350
11.7
8
$4,544
2010
684
$245,718
$58,544
23.8
8
$7,318
2009
684
$298,660
$36,775
12.3
10
$3,678
2008
684
$276,520
$40,206
14.5
8
$5,026
2007
684
$287,909
$39,879
13.9
8
$4,985
2006
684
$311,864
$40,018
12.8
8
$5,002
2005
684
$291,434
$47,406
16.3
10
$4,741
2004
684
$262,092
$41,655
15.9
8
$5,207
2003
684
$234,588
$41,759
17.8
8
$5,220
2002
684
$236,867
$41,103
17.4
8
$5,138
2001
684
$218,964
$47,806
21.8
8
$5,976
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.
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