That's an increase of 1.8 percent from 2016, when the township spent $331,800.
Sargent Township has a population of 286.
Since 2001, the Sargent Township budget has fallen by 24.5 percent, from $447,388. The township population has fallen 15.9 percent over the same period, from 340.
Salaries accounted for 18.8 percent of township spending in 2017. Sargent Township property taxpayers paid $63,385 for 13 part-time employees, or an average of $4,876 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the township had two full-time employees and five part-time employees, and spent $66,827.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.