That's an increase of 159.1 percent from 2015, when the township spent $348,841.
Rushville Township has a population of 2,700.
Since 2001, the Rushville Township budget has grown by 238.9 percent, from $266,721. The township population has fallen 3.6 percent over the same period, from 2,800.
Salaries accounted for 6.1 percent of township spending in 2016. Rushville Township property taxpayers paid $54,970 for one full-time employee, or an average of $54,970 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the township had one full-time employee and eight part-time employees, and spent $46,299.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.