That's a decrease of 1.7 percent from 2015, when the township spent $217,883.
Cooperstown Township has a population of 340.
Since 2001, the Cooperstown Township budget has grown by 51.9 percent, from $141,042. The township population has fallen 10.5 percent over the same period, from 380.
Salaries accounted for 16.7 percent of township spending in 2016. Cooperstown Township property taxpayers paid $35,862 for eight part-time employees, or an average of $4,483 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the township had eight full-time employees and spent $24,445, or $3,056 each.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.