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The price of local government in 2017: Buckheart Township

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The Buckheart Township budget was $135,251 for its 2017 fiscal year.

That's a decrease of 99.4 percent from 2016, when the township spent $22.87 million.

Buckheart Township has a population of 1,430.

Since 2001, the Buckheart Township budget has fallen by 11.1 percent, from $152,082. The township population has fallen 5.6 percent over the same period, from 1,515.

Salaries accounted for 22.5 percent of township spending in 2017. Buckheart Township property taxpayers paid $30,463 for nine part-time employees, or an average of $3,385 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the township had six part-time employees and spent $45,572, or $7,595 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
1,430
$135,251
$30,463
22.5
9
$3,385
2016
1,795
$22,865,815
$17,882
0.1
2
$8,941
2015
1,484
$172,906
$3,331,153
1926.6
2
$1,665,576
2014
1,484
$164,492
$18,773
11.4
2
$9,386
2013
1,484
$231,879
$37,590
16.2
3
$12,530
2012
1,484
$339,055
$41,711
12.3
3
$13,904
2011
1,484
$79,842
$39,109
49
8
$4,889
2010
1,515
$135,702
$38,618
28.5
2
$19,309
2009
1,515
$202,907
$39,739
19.6
8
$4,967
2008
1,515
$131,918
$37,861
28.7
2
$18,931
2007
1,515
$138,115
$40,260
29.1
2
$20,130
2006
1,515
$183,074
$35,646
19.5
6
$5,941
2005
1,515
$178,815
$44,695
25
11
$4,063
2004
1,515
$158,604
$19,080
12
2
$9,540
2003
1,515
$154,360
$37,401
24.2
2
$18,701
2002
1,515
$79,450
$35,559
44.8
2
$17,779
2001
1,515
$152,082
$45,572
30
6
$7,595

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

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