That's a decrease of 1.8 percent from 2015, when the township spent $574,394.
Cheneys Grove Township has a population of 997.
Since 2001, the Cheneys Grove Township budget has grown by 110.5 percent, from $268,087. The township population has fallen 6.7 percent over the same period, from 1,069.
Salaries accounted for 22.3 percent of township spending in 2016. Cheneys Grove Township property taxpayers paid $125,932 for 14 part-time employees, or an average of $8,995 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the township had 13 full-time employees and six part-time employees, and spent $77,241.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.