That's an increase of 144.7 percent from 2016, when the township spent $131,938.
Milks Grove Township has a population of 214.
Since 2001, the Milks Grove Township budget has grown by 18.7 percent, from $271,909. The township population has fallen 3.2 percent over the same period, from 221.
Salaries accounted for 12.8 percent of township spending in 2017. Milks Grove Township property taxpayers paid $41,175 for nine part-time employees, or an average of $4,575 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the township had one full-time employee and six part-time employees, and spent $32,884.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.