That's an increase of 58.5 percent from 2016, when the township spent $114,117.
Teutopolis Township has a population of 2,600.
Since 2001, the Teutopolis Township budget has fallen by 43 percent, from $317,322. The township population has grown 3.4 percent over the same period, from 2,515.
Salaries accounted for 20.4 percent of township spending in 2017. Teutopolis Township property taxpayers paid $36,969 for nine part-time employees, or an average of $4,108 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the township had 10 part-time employees and spent $35,531, or $3,553 each.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.