That's a decrease of 21.4 percent from 2016, when the township spent $645,570.
Arrowsmith Township has a population of 502.
Since 2001, the Arrowsmith Township budget has grown by 90 percent, from $267,003. The township population has fallen 11.8 percent over the same period, from 569.
Salaries accounted for 8.5 percent of township spending in 2017. Arrowsmith Township property taxpayers paid $43,146 for seven part-time employees, or an average of $6,164 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the township had one full-time employee and eight part-time employees, and spent $35,215.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.