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The price of local government in 2016: Cooperstown Township

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The Cooperstown Township budget was $214,206 for its 2016 fiscal year.

That's a decrease of 1.7 percent from 2015, when the township spent $217,883.

Cooperstown Township has a population of 340.

Since 2001, the Cooperstown Township budget has grown by 51.9 percent, from $141,042. The township population has fallen 10.5 percent over the same period, from 380.

Salaries accounted for 16.7 percent of township spending in 2016. Cooperstown Township property taxpayers paid $35,862 for eight part-time employees, or an average of $4,483 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the township had eight full-time employees and spent $24,445, or $3,056 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2016
340
$214,206
$35,862
16.7
8
$4,483
2015
340
$217,883
$26,013
11.9
7
$3,716
2014
340
$215,670
$25,665
11.9
7
$3,666
2013
340
$236,212
$24,953
10.6
7
$3,565
2012
338
$237,182
$29,049
12.2
7
$4,150
2011
338
$324,625
$42,917
13.2
7
$6,131
2010
335
$339,240
$44,193
13
9
$4,910
2009
331
$148,210
$37,715
25.4
9
$4,191
2008
334
$155,418
$31,918
20.5
9
$3,546
2007
334
$133,041
$31,494
23.7
9
$3,499
2006
394
$167,999
$31,299
18.6
9
$3,478
2005
394
$139,165
$29,881
21.5
9
$3,320
2004
390
$178,319
$27,483
15.4
8
$3,435
2003
380
$198,349
$23,702
11.9
8
$2,963
2002
374
$176,400
$24,406
13.8
8
$3,051
2001
380
$141,042
$24,445
17.3
8
$3,056

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

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