That's a decrease of 13.5 percent from 2016, when the township spent $1.10 million.
Dry Grove Township has a population of 1,600.
Since 2001, the Dry Grove Township budget has grown by 30.2 percent, from $734,566. The township population has fallen 5.9 percent over the same period, from 1,700.
Salaries accounted for 10.5 percent of township spending in 2017. Dry Grove Township property taxpayers paid $100,808 for 18 part-time employees, or an average of $5,600 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the township had 19 part-time employees and spent $61,911, or $3,258 each.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.