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Thursday, November 21, 2024

The price of local government in 2017: Blackhawk Township

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The Blackhawk Township budget was $882,827 for its 2017 fiscal year.

That's an increase of 3.9 percent from 2016, when the township spent $849,487.

Blackhawk Township has a population of 10,019.

Since 2001, the Blackhawk Township budget has fallen by 9.1 percent, from $971,019. The township population has fallen 8.8 percent over the same period, from 10,991.

Salaries accounted for 28.4 percent of township spending in 2017. Blackhawk Township property taxpayers paid $250,302 for 11 full-time employees and one part-time employee.

In 2001, the township had 10 full-time employees and two part-time employees, and spent $282,868.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
10,019
$882,827
$250,302
28.4
12
$20,858
2016
10,019
$849,487
$241,577
28.4
13
$18,583
2015
10,019
$886,411
$240,304
27.1
8
$30,038
2014
10,019
$817,991
$241,737
29.6
13
$18,595
2013
10,019
$837,220
$244,584
29.2
13
$18,814
2012
10,612
$830,366
$240,020
28.9
13
$18,463
2011
10,000
$971,279
$246,629
25.4
13
$18,971
2010
4,949
$1,056,967
$250,108
23.7
15
$16,674
2009
10,000
$1,100,563
$248,320
22.6
13
$19,102
2008
10,000
$1,204,795
$247,643
20.6
13
$19,049
2007
10,000
$866,671
$253,589
29.3
13
$19,507
2006
10,000
$968,108
$264,114
27.3
16
$16,507
2005
10,000
$937,097
$274,678
29.3
16
$17,167
2004
10,000
$1,067,637
$274,515
25.7
16
$17,157
2003
10,000
$1,077,746
$257,696
23.9
14
$18,407
2002
10,000
$1,075,514
$271,887
25.3
12
$22,657
2001
10,991
$971,019
$282,868
29.1
12
$23,572

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

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