That's an increase of 4.8 percent from 2016, when the township spent $199,882.
Whitefield Township has a population of 302.
Since 2001, the Whitefield Township budget has fallen by 5.9 percent, from $222,514. The township population has fallen 19.7 percent over the same period, from 376.
Salaries accounted for 11.9 percent of township spending in 2017. Whitefield Township property taxpayers paid $24,983 for nine part-time employees, or an average of $2,776 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the township had 15 part-time employees and spent $31,853, or $2,124 each.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.