That's a decrease of 49.2 percent from 2016, when the township spent $903,945.
Rushville Township has a population of 2,700.
Since 2001, the Rushville Township budget has grown by 72.1 percent, from $266,721. The township population has fallen 3.6 percent over the same period, from 2,800.
Salaries accounted for 11.6 percent of township spending in 2017. Rushville Township property taxpayers paid $53,399 for one full-time employee, or an average of $53,399 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.