That's an increase of 14.6 percent from 2016, when the township spent $93,450.
Belle Prairie Township has a population of 135.
Since 2001, the Belle Prairie Township budget has grown by 77.6 percent, from $60,312. The township population has grown 48.4 percent over the same period, from 91.
Salaries accounted for 10.4 percent of township spending in 2017. Belle Prairie Township property taxpayers paid $11,156 for seven part-time employees, or an average of $1,594 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the township had seven part-time employees and spent $16,628, or $2,375 each.
Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
135
$107,100
$11,156
10.4
7
$1,594
2016
135
$93,450
$14,887
15.9
9
$1,654
2015
135
$120,922
$19,631
16.2
9
$2,181
2014
135
$98,450
$20,752
21.1
8
$2,594
2013
135
$52,757
$10,539
20
7
$1,506
2012
135
$116,113
$16,479
14.2
8
$2,060
2011
135
$79,718
$24,113
30.2
11
$2,192
2010
91
$79,160
$19,712
24.9
9
$2,190
2009
91
$234,000
$21,060
9
10
$2,106
2008
91
$187,168
$19,483
10.4
10
$1,948
2007
91
$37,931
$17,440
46
9
$1,938
2006
91
$60,335
$15,759
26.1
8
$1,970
2005
91
$71,973
$17,532
24.4
10
$1,753
2004
91
$58,566
$20,942
35.8
10
$2,094
2003
91
$67,698
$20,136
29.7
10
$2,014
2002
91
$58,478
$13,542
23.2
7
$1,935
2001
91
$60,312
$16,628
27.6
7
$2,375
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.
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