That's an increase of 19.3 percent from 2016, when the township spent $193,710.
Pleasant Vale Township has a population of 573.
Since 2001, the Pleasant Vale Township budget has fallen by 9.8 percent, from $256,303. The township population has fallen 12.9 percent over the same period, from 658.
Salaries accounted for 10.7 percent of township spending in 2017. Pleasant Vale Township property taxpayers paid $24,610 for seven part-time employees, or an average of $3,516 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the township had seven full-time employees and one part-time employee, and spent $28,072.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.