That's an increase of 197.6 percent from 2016, when the township spent $251,159.
Dement Township has a population of 939.
Since 2003, the Dement Township budget has grown by 37.9 percent, from $541,885. The township population has grown 13.8 percent over the same period, from 825.
Salaries accounted for six percent of township spending in 2017. Dement Township property taxpayers paid $45,138 for 11 part-time employees, or an average of $4,103 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.