Entries from January 2007

January 18, 2007

A bit bummed out …

(Blog-person’s note: it took me a bit to calm down to put my feelings/thoughts together to post this)
Well, I said let’s get down to business, so here we are. Our first Township Advisory Board business meeting last Tuesday and the board and I are all excited!
The public wasn’t. Of the 8 folks that [...]

January 12, 2007

Let’s get down to business …

The first business meeting of the Advisory Board will be on Tuesday, January 16th at 7 PM at Union Elementary School. You can view the proposed agenda at the township’s web site(click here to go there). As you can see I plan on using a lot of committees to help get our heads [...]

January 6, 2007

Whoa … or woe!

I am at a bit of a disadvantage right now as the township records are being audited by the Indiana State Board of Accounts and Past-Trustee Jacqueline Carr has the check books to finish up the township annual report. (I have no current financial records to reference.)
BUT … reading in today’s Daily Sun that Worth/Boone [...]

January 3, 2007

Annual Meeting

The annual meeting of the Union Township Advisory Board was held, as required by Indiana Code, to elect officers of the board. Dan Montgomery was elected president and Jim Sanford was elected secretary.
I introduced Beth Tiefel, who will be my clerk and designated trustee in my absence, and I also announced that Eileen [...]

January 1, 2007

Open for business …

We received the township records and “stuff” yesterday, on time and in good order, from the previous Trustee, Jacqueline Carr. It was a full pickup truck load of some 15 cartons, boxes and storage containers. I am a little surprised at the amount of paper involved in running a rather small rural township, [...]