That's a decrease of 1.8 percent from 2016, when the township spent $208,754.
La Prairie Township has a population of 364.
Since 2001, the La Prairie Township budget has grown by 81.3 percent, from $113,070. The township population has fallen 19.1 percent over the same period, from 450.
Salaries accounted for 14 percent of township spending in 2017. La Prairie Township property taxpayers paid $28,662 for seven part-time employees, or an average of $4,095 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the township had seven full-time employees and two part-time employees, and spent $29,174.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.