Miami Township Section

• Miami Township Trustees hire consultant to improve fire department

  By Lauren ShowsOctober 25, 2024

  

  Fred Kauser, a firefighter of 40 years and former Mifflin Township fire chief, now serves as a fire instructor, lecturer, trainer and consultant, as well as a professor and researcher with a master’s degree in labor and human resource management and a Ph.D. in workforce development and education.

• 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.

• Vesper Energy identifies potential land for utility-scale solar

  By Lauren ShowsAugust 9, 2024

  

  Vesper Energy has located a potential 10,000-acre swath of land along the existing Clark-Greene 138 kV electric transmission line where the Aviation Energy Center could be sited.

• Miami Township Trustees approve firefighter pensions

  By Lauren ShowsJune 1, 2024

  

  After a month-and-a-half of deliberation, Miami Township Trustees unanimously voted at their regular meeting Monday, May 20, to approve a resolution to reclassify three Miami Township Fire-Rescue, or MTFR, positions as full-time, pensioned positions.

• 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 Trustees wrestle with operations costs, firefighter retention

  By Lauren ShowsMay 6, 2024

  

  What’s the best way to balance operations costs with the need for adequate shift staffing and long-term employee retention?

• GunderKline sworn in as Miami Township Fiscal Officer

  By Lauren ShowsApril 20, 2024

  

  New Miami Township Fiscal Officer Jeanna GunderKline was sworn in by Trustee Chair Don Hollister at the most recent regular meeting of the Township Trustees Monday, April 1.

• Miami Township Trustees | Fiscal Officer Margaret Silliman signs off

  By Lauren ShowsApril 2, 2024

  

  After serving for 24 years in the position, Silliman retired this month; her successor, Jeanna GunderKline, who was elected last fall, will take over as fiscal officer beginning in April.

• 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.

• Miami Township Board of Trustees | Feb. 21 Meeting

  By Lauren ShowsMarch 22, 2024

  

  The Miami Township Board of Trustees held its second regular meeting of the month Wednesday, Feb. 21.