That's a decrease of 0.9 percent from 2015, when the township spent $218,360.
South Palmyra Township has a population of 747.
Since 2001, the South Palmyra Township budget has grown by 65.4 percent, from $130,809. The township population has fallen 11.7 percent over the same period, from 846.
Salaries accounted for 17.1 percent of township spending in 2016. South Palmyra Township property taxpayers paid $36,940 for 10 part-time employees, or an average of $3,694 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the township had eight full-time employees and three part-time employees, and spent $103,180.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.