That's a decrease of 2.2 percent from 2016, when the township spent $621,495.
Forreston Township has a population of 1,974.
Since 2001, the Forreston Township budget has grown by 1.3 percent, from $599,986. The township population has fallen 2.9 percent over the same period, from 2,032.
Salaries accounted for 8.9 percent of township spending in 2017. Forreston Township property taxpayers paid $54,414 for 10 part-time employees, or an average of $5,441 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the township had one full-time employee and nine part-time employees, and spent $41,446.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.