That's a decrease of 2.9 percent from 2016, when the township spent $457,611.
East Grove Township has a population of 256.
Since 2001, the East Grove Township budget has grown by 281.7 percent, from $116,453. The township population has fallen 14.7 percent over the same period, from 300.
Salaries accounted for 11.7 percent of township spending in 2017. East Grove Township property taxpayers paid $51,964 for seven part-time employees, or an average of $7,423 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the township had eight part-time employees and spent $31,939, or $3,992 each.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.