That's an increase of 5.1 percent from 2015, when the township spent $156,470.
St. Francis Township has a population of 1,213.
Since 2004, the St. Francis Township budget has fallen by 19.5 percent, from $204,256. The township population has fallen 8.8 percent over the same period, from 1,330.
Salaries accounted for 17.3 percent of township spending in 2016. St. Francis Township property taxpayers paid $28,477 for 12 part-time employees, or an average of $2,373 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2004, the township had 12 part-time employees and spent $28,811, or $2,401 each.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.