That's an increase of 71.1 percent from 2015, when the township spent $131,653.
Fayette Township has a population of 271.
Since 2001, the Fayette Township budget has fallen by four percent, from $234,659. The township population has grown 2.7 percent over the same period, from 264.
Salaries accounted for 10.4 percent of township spending in 2016. Fayette Township property taxpayers paid $23,533 for 10 part-time employees, or an average of $2,353 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the township had 10 full-time employees and six part-time employees, and spent $27,930.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.