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The price of local government in 2017: West Point Township

Budget 06

The West Point Township budget was $537,576 for its 2017 fiscal year.

That's a decrease of 1.5 percent from 2016, when the township spent $545,709.

West Point Township has a population of 3,355.

Since 2001, the West Point Township budget has fallen by three percent, from $553,992. The township population has grown 16.2 percent over the same period, from 2,887.

Salaries accounted for 16.7 percent of township spending in 2017. West Point Township property taxpayers paid $89,590 for one full-time employee and 16 part-time employees.

In 2001, the township had one full-time employee and 11 part-time employees, and spent $74,361.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
3,355
$537,576
$89,590
16.7
17
$5,270
2016
3,355
$545,709
$88,682
16.3
17
$5,217
2015
3,355
$554,463
$102,275
18.4
16
$6,392
2014
3,355
$496,232
$101,042
20.4
17
$5,944
2013
3,355
$505,658
$85,951
17
17
$5,056
2012
3,355
$462,043
$74,833
16.2
17
$4,402
2011
3,355
$462,249
$101,418
21.9
17
$5,966
2010
3,355
$438,770
$90,383
20.6
17
$5,317
2009
3,375
$445,414
$76,946
17.3
13
$5,919
2008
3,375
$435,805
$73,229
16.8
13
$5,633
2007
2,887
$458,815
$56,098
12.2
12
$4,675
2006
2,887
$469,533
$53,911
11.5
12
$4,493
2005
2,887
$449,735
$64,734
14.4
12
$5,394
2004
2,887
$526,936
$71,154
13.5
12
$5,930
2003
2,887
$564,812
$69,427
12.3
12
$5,786
2002
2,887
$539,307
$71,921
13.3
12
$5,993
2001
2,887
$553,992
$74,361
13.4
12
$6,197

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

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