That's a decrease of 12.2 percent from 2016, when the township spent $307,335.
Mineral Township has a population of 484.
Since 2001, the Mineral Township budget has fallen by 12 percent, from $306,720. The township population has fallen 7.1 percent over the same period, from 521.
Salaries accounted for 11.5 percent of township spending in 2017. Mineral Township property taxpayers paid $31,044 for 11 part-time employees, or an average of $2,822 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the township had 10 full-time employees and seven part-time employees, and spent $40,182.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.