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Thursday, May 16, 2024

The price of local government in 2017: Pontoosuc Township

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The Pontoosuc Township budget was $96,567 for its 2017 fiscal year.

That's an increase of 3.1 percent from 2016, when the township spent $93,623.

Pontoosuc Township has a population of 402.

Since 2001, the Pontoosuc Township budget has fallen by 52.9 percent, from $204,932. The township population has fallen 5.4 percent over the same period, from 425.

Salaries accounted for 20 percent of township spending in 2017. Pontoosuc Township property taxpayers paid $19,330 for seven part-time employees, or an average of $2,761 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the township had eight part-time employees and spent $15,989, or $1,999 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
402
$96,567
$19,330
20
7
$2,761
2016
404
$93,623
$19,946
21.3
7
$2,849
2015
425
$120,740
$18,174
15.1
7
$2,596
2014
4,250
$82,585
$18,174
22
7
$2,596
2013
4,250
$102,561
$17,977
17.5
7
$2,568
2012
425
$121,875
$18,075
14.8
8
$2,259
2011
425
$125,232
$1,875,844
1497.9
8
$234,481
2010
425
$86,414
$18,393
21.3
8
$2,299
2009
425
$92,290
$18,275
19.8
8
$2,284
2008
425
$123,732
$16,791
13.6
8
$2,099
2007
425
$119,242
$17,508
14.7
8
$2,189
2006
425
$118,315
$19,875
16.8
7
$2,839
2005
425
$120,400
$17,519
14.6
7
$2,503
2004
425
$121,840
$17,865
14.7
8
$2,233
2003
425
$154,552
$18,376
11.9
8
$2,297
2002
425
$148,551
$19,219
12.9
8
$2,402
2001
425
$204,932
$15,989
7.8
8
$1,999

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

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