That's a decrease of 3.7 percent from 2016, when the township spent $716,605.
Township of Alden has a population of 1,371.
Since 2001, the Township of Alden budget has fallen by 14 percent, from $802,080. The township population has fallen 10.6 percent over the same period, from 1,534.
Salaries accounted for 14.3 percent of township spending in 2017. Township of Alden property taxpayers paid $98,449 for two part-time employees, or an average of $49,225 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the township had five full-time employees and 12 part-time employees, and spent $111,337.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.