GREENWOOD TWP- Greenwood officials bickered for most of their two and a half-hour meeting Tuesday night, with much of the focus on the town clerk’s duties and her resistance to fulfilling …
Jodi Summit
GREENWOOD TWP- Greenwood Township’s levy will remain at $150,000 for next year, following action at the township’s reconvened annual meeting held July 22. Township voters overwhelming supported the status quo levy by a vote of 46-5. The meeting was held in-person, with over 50 in attendance at the town hall, but three residents opted to cast their votes by phone.
Chairman Mike Ralston, at the regular town board meeting in July, had asked the board to increase their levy request to $200,000, and that request was approved by a split 3-2 vote. He had also requested the township levy an additional $200,000 for possible broadband expenses, anotherbut that move was not supported by other board members.
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Greenwood Township delays annual meeting to July 22 Posted
Jodi Summit
GREENWOOD TWP- Close to 50 township residents attended the virtual Greenwood Annual Town Meeting on Tuesday, but all quickly realized that conducting such a meeting virtually was a lesson in frustration.
In all, it took nearly an hour to open the meeting, and decide on a day to continue the meeting.
After determining the names of all the voters in attendance, each step of the meeting included a one-by-one roll call vote.
Chief and assistant chief allegedly used their positions to wage politics Posted Sunday, March 7, 2021 3:51 pm The immediate thing I felt was that we’re all here as employees to go over fire department business. Why were they telling us who we should be voting for?”” Firefighter Jeff Maus
Marshall Helmberger
GREENWOOD TWP The fire chief and assistant fire chief here are facing official complaints over allegations they may have violated a state law that prohibits public employees and officials from using their authority to pressure or compel others to engage in political activity.
On March 2, with a hotly contested township election just one week away, the Greenwood Fire Department’s top two officers used a fire department business meeting to weigh in on one side of the political fued that has consumed the township for the past several years. Fire chief David Fazio, who was not present at the meeting, had provided an agenda for ass