That's a decrease of one percent from 2016, when the township spent $276,757.
Marissa Township has a population of 1,836.
Since 2001, the Marissa Township budget has fallen by 41.1 percent, from $464,895. The township population has fallen 31.1 percent over the same period, from 2,664.
Salaries accounted for 39.6 percent of township spending in 2017. Marissa Township property taxpayers paid $108,492 for eight part-time employees, or an average of $13,562 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the township had two full-time employees and eight part-time employees, and spent $107,906.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.