Articles About Miami Township Board of Trustees

• Trustees talk cemeteries, zoning, defibrillators

  By Lauren ShowsAugust 1, 2025

  

  At their most recent regular meeting, held Monday, July 21, the Miami Township Trustees agreed to allocate additional funds for cemetery expansion, approved text amendments to the Township’s zoning code and discussed the future of Township-placed defibrillators.

• Township Trustees update agenda process, zoning code

  By Lauren ShowsJuly 15, 2025

  

  “Public bodies have a duty to keep the public informed if they’re making major decisions that affect the public purse and public well-being,” Trustee Marilan Moir said.

• Township Trustees appoint new fire chief

  By Lauren ShowsJune 27, 2025

  

  The Miami Township Trustees voted unanimously during their regular meeting Monday, June 16, to appoint James R. Cannell Jr. as fire chief to head up Miami Township Fire-Rescue.

• Miami Township Trustees commit $127k to Tecumseh Land Trust

  By Lauren ShowsMay 16, 2025

  

  Ultimately — with a 2–1 vote — the three-member board approved a resolution to set aside $127,419 from its general fund to be used “for the exclusive purpose to fund [the trustees’] commitment to partner with the Tecumseh Land Trust to acquire conservation easements on all or part of the township parcels referred to as the [Welch] Farm.’”

• Fire chief placed on administrative leave

  By Lauren ShowsFebruary 19, 2025

  

  Following a special meeting of the Miami Township Trustees on Tuesday, Jan. 28, Fire Chief Dennis Powell has been placed on paid administrative leave due to an internal complaint.

• Miami Township Trustees settle first-of-year business

  By Lauren ShowsJanuary 31, 2025

  

  With deep snow on the ground throughout Miami Township that night, the Board of Trustees held its first meeting of the new year Monday, Jan. 6. At the forefront of the meeting’s agenda was the handling of first-of-year business.

• 2024 In Review | Government

  By YS News StaffDecember 30, 2024

  

  2024 In Review: Village Government, Village Council, Planning Commission, Miami Township Trustees and the 2024 General Election.

• Miami Township Trustees commit $113,000 to Tecumseh Land Trust

  By YS News StaffAugust 30, 2024

  

  Tecumseh Land Trust is currently eyeing land along Dayton Yellow-Springs Road that is likely to come up for auction this year — land that has been identified by TLT and the Village as a priority for conservation.

• Miami Township Trustees | Firefighter compensation, retention talks continue

  By Lauren ShowsMay 20, 2024

  

  Miami Township Trustees continued last week to discuss firefighter compensation and retention — a discussion which will now be aided by a former Mifflin Township fire chief, and which is slated to culminate at an upcoming Monday, May 20, meeting of the trustees.

• Miami Township Board of Trustees | Tax rate reduced, grants pursued

  By Lauren ShowsMarch 23, 2024

  

  Greene County Auditor David Graham explained that local millage rates for a 2.4-mill levy passed in 2017 to fund the construction of the current fire station have been reduced over the last two years.