SPARTA. The owner of the average township home, assessed at $372,200, will pay $82.26 more this year than in 2024.
The Township Council unanimously approved a 2025 municipal budget of about $31.6 million, up 2.5 percent from a year earlier, at its meeting Tuesday, June 24.
Township manager James Zepp said the increase of $756,775 is the result of higher costs for insurance; contractual salaries and wages; statutory...