That's a decrease of 61 percent from 2015, when the township spent $644,037.
Dement Township has a population of 939.
Since 2003, the Dement Township budget has fallen by 53.7 percent, from $541,885. The township population has grown 13.8 percent over the same period, from 825.
Salaries accounted for 17.6 percent of township spending in 2016. Dement Township property taxpayers paid $44,202 for eight part-time employees, or an average of $5,525 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2003, the township had four full-time employees and six part-time employees, and spent $52,386.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.