That's an increase of 30.9 percent from 2015, when the township spent $220,829.
West Peoria Township has a population of 4,458.
Since 2001, the West Peoria Township budget has fallen by 24.2 percent, from $381,043. The township population has fallen 16 percent over the same period, from 5,309.
Salaries accounted for 9.2 percent of township spending in 2016. West Peoria Township property taxpayers paid $26,571 for eight part-time employees, or an average of $3,321 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the township had one full-time employee and nine part-time employees, and spent $67,197.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.