That's a decrease of 8.7 percent from 2016, when the township spent $1.12 million.
Malta Township has a population of 1,608.
Since 2001, the Malta Township budget has grown by 213.7 percent, from $326,134. The township population has grown 14.7 percent over the same period, from 1,402.
Salaries accounted for 11.6 percent of township spending in 2017. Malta Township property taxpayers paid $118,343 for 17 part-time employees, or an average of $6,961 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.