That's an increase of 113.3 percent from 2015, when the township spent $300,666.
Manito Township has a population of 1,527.
Since 2001, the Manito Township budget has grown by 136.9 percent, from $270,730. The township population has fallen 41.8 percent over the same period, from 2,625.
Salaries accounted for 13.1 percent of township spending in 2016. Manito Township property taxpayers paid $84,164 for 12 part-time employees, or an average of $7,014 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the township had one full-time employee and 13 part-time employees, and spent $62,504.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.