That's a decrease of 45.6 percent from 2016, when the township spent $2.17 million.
Cunningham Township has a population of 41,760.
Since 2001, the Cunningham Township budget has grown by 6.5 percent, from $1.11 million. The township population has grown 11.2 percent over the same period, from 37,546.
Salaries accounted for 32.3 percent of township spending in 2017. Cunningham Township property taxpayers paid $380,856 for eight full-time employees, or an average of $47,607 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the township had eight full-time employees and one part-time employee, and spent $351,163.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.