That's an increase of 101.5 percent from 2015, when the city spent $1.04 million.
City of Champaign Township has a population of 83,424.
Since 2001, the City of Champaign Township budget has grown by 194.5 percent, from $712,104. The city population has grown 31.4 percent over the same period, from 63,500.
Salaries accounted for 17.7 percent of city spending in 2016. City of Champaign Township property taxpayers paid $372,051 for seven full-time employees, or an average of $53,150 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the city had seven full-time employees and spent $400,715, or $57,245 each.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.