That's a decrease of 2.9 percent from 2015, when the township spent $284,484.
Garden Plain Township has a population of 1,072.
Since 2001, the Garden Plain Township budget has grown by 45.9 percent, from $189,421. The township population has grown 2.3 percent over the same period, from 1,048.
Salaries accounted for 24.9 percent of township spending in 2016. Garden Plain Township property taxpayers paid $68,908 for one full-time employee and 19 part-time employees.
In 2001, the township had one full-time employee and nine part-time employees, and spent $62,176.
Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2016
1,072
$276,334
$68,908
24.9
20
$3,445
2015
1,055
$284,484
$62,979
22.1
17
$3,705
2014
1,072
$236,558
$62,870
26.6
19
$3,309
2013
1,072
$305,281
$49,508
16.2
18
$2,750
2012
1,076
$214,510
$52,885
24.7
16
$3,305
2011
1,076
$252,960
$55,511
21.9
13
$4,270
2010
1,076
$264,571
$50,553
19.1
9
$5,617
2009
1,055
$239,008
$48,158
20.1
9
$5,351
2008
1,055
$210,723
$51,562
24.5
9
$5,729
2007
1,055
$212,500
$52,695
24.8
9
$5,855
2006
1,055
$319,769
$48,949
15.3
4
$12,237
2005
1,055
$231,608
$62,898
27.2
10
$6,290
2004
1,055
$218,199
$60,470
27.7
11
$5,497
2003
1,055
$238,408
$60,472
25.4
12
$5,039
2002
1,055
$194,782
$61,299
31.5
11
$5,573
2001
1,048
$189,421
$62,176
32.8
10
$6,218
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.