The Township Board of Trustees meets the second Tuesday of the month. Agendas are available before the meeting.
Duties of Township Officials include the following: (as summarized by Catherine Mullhaupt- Michigan Townships Assocation) Trustees are legislators for the township, and represent constituents as they make township "laws" (ordinances) and determine how public funds will be spent to provide township services and programs. The township officials with executive authority--the supervisor, clerk and treasurer--oversee the assessing, tax collecting, elections, recordkeeping, financial, public works, employment and administrative operations of the township. In the executive role, a board member must "switch hats" from the big picture approach to the more detailed, day-to-day approach of an administrative department head. When township board members are called upon to make decisions on specific requests or applications, such as special use permit approvals or variance requests, in their role as members of township decision making bodies such as the planning commission or ZBA, they must once again "switch hats" and function as a fact-finder and decision maker. Township officials cannot be neatly pigeon-holed into one function or another. Obviously, some individual officials are better suited for one role than another--but amazingly, many township officials juggle their many roles very effectively. Few other government officials are called upon to fill so many roles.
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