That's a decrease of 22.9 percent from 2016, when the township spent $217,616.
Carson Township has a population of 150.
Since 2001, the Carson Township budget has grown by 148.4 percent, from $67,500. The township population has grown 1.4 percent over the same period, from 148.
Salaries accounted for 6.5 percent of township spending in 2017. Carson Township property taxpayers paid $10,857 for eight part-time employees, or an average of $1,357 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the township had one full-time employee and two part-time employees, and spent $11,076.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.