That's an increase of 54.2 percent from 2015, when the township spent $138,535.
Lone Grove Township has a population of 1,200.
Since 2001, the Lone Grove Township budget has grown by 121.3 percent, from $96,560. The township population has grown 69.7 percent over the same period, from 707.
Salaries accounted for 2.4 percent of township spending in 2016. Lone Grove Township property taxpayers paid $5,093 for two part-time employees, or an average of $2,546 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the township had seven full-time employees and one part-time employee, and spent $22,379.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.