That's a decrease of 12 percent from 2015, when the township spent $1.26 million.
Alton Township has a population of 27,865.
Since 2001, the Alton Township budget has fallen by 32.5 percent, from $1.64 million. The township population has fallen 14.8 percent over the same period, from 32,700.
Salaries accounted for 51.2 percent of township spending in 2016. Alton Township property taxpayers paid $566,545 for 12 full-time employees, or an average of $47,212 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the township had 12 full-time employees and one part-time employee, and spent $581,364.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.