Township Personnel
Onondaga Township is a local form of government that is directed by an elected board of trustees and managed by both elected and appointed staff.
The structure of Onondaga Township Government follows:
BOARD OF TRUSTEES (elected) STAFF (elected)
Supervisor Supervisor
Clerk Clerk
Treasurer Treasurer
Trustees at Large
COMMITTEES STAFF (appointed)
(minimum of 1 Board Trustee Admin/Manager
plus appointed membership; Assessor
formulates recommendations Inspector(s)
for Board review/approval) Zoning Enforcement
Support
Planning Commission Election Registrar
Review Board Fire Department
Appeals Board
Township Definition:
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Townships are the largest subdivisions of land run out by the United States Surveyors. In the governmental surveys Township Lines are the first to be run, and a Township Corner is established every six miles and marked. This is called "Town shipping." After the Township Corners have been carefully located, the section and quarter section corners are established. Each township is six miles square and contains 23,040 acres, or 36 square miles, or as near as possible. This however, is frequently made impossible by, (1st.) the presence of lakes and large streams; (2nd) state boundaries not falling on township lines; (3rd) convergence of Meridians or curvature of the earth's surface; (4th) inaccurate surveys. Each township, unless its one of the exceptional cases referred to above, is divided into 36 squares, which are called sections. These sections are intended to be one mile or 320 rods square and contain 640 acres of land . Sections are numbered consecutively from 1 to 36. |
For additional information and a definition of a township
as defined by the
Michigan Legislature click here.