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Thursday, November 28, 2024

The price of local government in 2017: Avon Township

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The Avon Township budget was $2.56 million for its 2017 fiscal year.

That's an increase of 14.2 percent from 2016, when the township spent $2.24 million.

Avon Township has a population of 65,001.

Since 2001, the Avon Township budget has fallen by 9.9 percent, from $2.84 million. The township population has grown 16.1 percent over the same period, from 56,000.

Salaries accounted for 24.3 percent of township spending in 2017. Avon Township property taxpayers paid $622,176 for 18 full-time employees and five part-time employees.

In 2001, the township had 13 full-time employees and spent $699,853, or $53,835 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
65,001
$2,564,085
$622,176
24.3
23
$27,051
2016
65,001
$2,244,955
$640,452
28.5
25
$25,618
2015
65,001
$2,369,534
$696,971
29.4
25
$27,879
2014
65,001
$2,637,450
$742,651
28.2
27
$27,506
2013
65,001
$2,360,776
$764,347
32.4
26
$29,398
2012
65,001
$2,764,894
$732,116
26.5
24
$30,505
2011
65,500
$4,449,997
$803,844
18.1
22
$36,538
2010
39,115
$3,972,615
$876,245
22.1
22
$39,829
2009
39,115
$3,986,951
$872,801
21.9
23
$37,948
2008
39,115
$3,132,792
$783,509
25
25
$31,340
2007
39,115
$3,371,226
$768,955
22.8
24
$32,040
2006
39,115
$2,630,250
$767,065
29.2
18
$42,615
2005
39,115
$2,785,445
$815,257
29.3
20
$40,763
2004
58,000
$2,967,296
$825,479
27.8
14
$58,963
2003
56,000
$3,487,516
$756,250
21.7
17
$44,485
2002
56,000
$3,019,660
$774,960
25.7
13
$59,612
2001
56,000
$2,844,690
$699,853
24.6
13
$53,835

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

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