That's an increase of 95.7 percent from 2015, when the township spent $121,317.
Knights Prairie Township has a population of 574.
Since 2001, the Knights Prairie Township budget has grown by 72.5 percent, from $137,669. The township population has grown 4.6 percent over the same period, from 549.
Salaries accounted for 13.1 percent of township spending in 2016. Knights Prairie Township property taxpayers paid $31,199 for 11 part-time employees, or an average of $2,836 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the township had 11 part-time employees and spent $31,416, or $2,856 each.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.