That's an increase of 4.4 percent from 2015, when the township spent $1.27 million.
Brookfield Township has a population of 1,060.
Since 2001, the Brookfield Township budget has fallen by 27.8 percent, from $1.83 million. The township population has grown 28.8 percent over the same period, from 823.
Salaries accounted for 10.7 percent of township spending in 2016. Brookfield Township property taxpayers paid $141,117 for 14 part-time employees, or an average of $10,080 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the township had 15 part-time employees and spent $126,549, or $8,437 each.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.