That's an increase of 2.6 percent from 2016, when the township spent $1.57 million.
Colona Township has a population of 6,999.
Since 2001, the Colona Township budget has grown by 114.1 percent, from $751,890. The township population has grown 4.5 percent over the same period, from 6,699.
Salaries accounted for 6.8 percent of township spending in 2017. Colona Township property taxpayers paid $109,029 for 21 part-time employees, or an average of $5,192 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the township had two full-time employees and 12 part-time employees, and spent $79,132.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.