That's an increase of 77.6 percent from 2016, when the township spent $212,755.
Manchester Township has a population of 895.
Since 2001, the Manchester Township budget has grown by 209.6 percent, from $122,036. The township population has fallen 3.9 percent over the same period, from 931.
Salaries accounted for 13.6 percent of township spending in 2017. Manchester Township property taxpayers paid $51,523 for 21 part-time employees, or an average of $2,453 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the township had 15 part-time employees and spent $19,125, or $1,275 each.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.