The South Moline Township budget was $2.62 million for its 2017 fiscal year.

That's a decrease of 1.8 percent from 2016, when the township spent $2.67 million.

South Moline Township has a population of 36,399.

Since 2001, the South Moline Township budget has grown by 129.9 percent, from $1.14 million. The township population has fallen 4.2 percent over the same period, from 38,000.

Salaries accounted for 18.2 percent of township spending in 2017. South Moline Township property taxpayers paid $477,043 for 10 full-time employees and 14 part-time employees.

In 2001, the township had 13 full-time employees and 15 part-time employees, and spent $438,523.

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