That's an increase of 19.1 percent from 2015, when the township spent $151,734.
Grand Detour Township has a population of 832.
Since 2002, the Grand Detour Township budget has grown by 200.2 percent, from $60,186. The township population has grown 1.2 percent over the same period, from 822.
Salaries accounted for 14.8 percent of township spending in 2016. Grand Detour Township property taxpayers paid $26,732 for seven part-time employees, or an average of $3,819 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2002, the township had one full-time employee and six part-time employees, and spent $23,419.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.