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The price of local government in 2017: Colona Township

Budget 06

The Colona Township budget was $1.61 million for its 2017 fiscal year.

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.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
6,999
$1,609,438
$109,029
6.8
21
$5,192
2016
6,999
$1,569,094
$109,603
7
20
$5,480
2015
6,999
$1,634,250
$114,426
7
22
$5,201
2014
6,999
$731,782
$112,261
15.3
16
$7,016
2013
6,999
$681,591
$94,324
13.8
13
$7,256
2012
6,999
$645,828
$92,098
14.3
14
$6,578
2011
6,999
$680,263
$99,542
14.6
13
$7,657
2010
6,699
$742,143
$98,917
13.3
15
$6,594
2009
6,699
$759,685
$87,920
11.6
13
$6,763
2008
6,699
$791,860
$88,234
11.1
11
$8,021
2007
6,699
$1,031,392
$93,084
9
11
$8,462
2006
6,699
$662,126
$80,876
12.2
11
$7,352
2005
6,699
$699,205
$92,418
13.2
11
$8,402
2004
6,699
$833,040
$103,933
12.5
11
$9,448
2003
6,699
$845,474
$99,942
11.8
11
$9,086
2002
6,699
$715,190
$80,826
11.3
11
$7,348
2001
6,699
$751,890
$79,132
10.5
14
$5,652

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

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