That's a decrease of 0.9 percent from 2015, when the township spent $78,959.
Elk Prairie Township has a population of 725.
Since 2001, the Elk Prairie Township budget has fallen by 23.2 percent, from $101,814. The township population has grown 0.6 percent over the same period, from 721.
Salaries accounted for 33.4 percent of township spending in 2016. Elk Prairie Township property taxpayers paid $26,138 for 13 part-time employees, or an average of $2,011 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the township had seven full-time employees and five part-time employees, and spent $30,290.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.