That's an increase of 5.3 percent from 2015, when the township spent $1.06 million.
Malta Township has a population of 16,080.
Since 2001, the Malta Township budget has grown by 243.7 percent, from $326,134. The township population has grown 1046.9 percent over the same period, from 1,402.
Salaries accounted for 11.2 percent of township spending in 2016. Malta Township property taxpayers paid $125,597 for 17 part-time employees, or an average of $7,388 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the township had one full-time employee and 19 part-time employees, and spent $64,512.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.