That's a decrease of 58.1 percent from 2016, when the township spent $336,000.
Cahokia Township has a population of 3,378.
Since 2001, the Cahokia Township budget has fallen by 26.5 percent, from $191,581. The township population has fallen 0.3 percent over the same period, from 3,389.
Salaries accounted for 41.4 percent of township spending in 2017. Cahokia Township property taxpayers paid $58,246 for 12 part-time employees, or an average of $4,854 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the township had one full-time employee and four part-time employees, and spent $58,353.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.