Miami Township Section :: Page 2

• 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.

• Miami Township Fire-Rescue reviews 2023

  By Lauren ShowsFebruary 1, 2024

  

  According to Interim Fire Chief Dennis Powell, MTFR currently staffs 26 firefighters and EMTs and works with an annual budget of $1.4 million.

• Miami Township Trustees discuss new-year business, solar

  By Lauren ShowsJanuary 18, 2024

  

  The Miami Township Board of Trustees held its first regular meeting of the year Wednesday, Jan. 3. Most of the meeting was focused on settling first-of-year business.

• New utility-scale solar project proposed for Greene County

  By Lauren ShowsDecember 20, 2023

  

  The proposed project, tentatively called the Aviation Energy Center, comes after the December 2022 Ohio Power Siting Board, or OPSB, denial of Vesper’s previously planned 1,500-acre, 175 MW utility-scale Kingwood solar project, which was also slated to be located in Greene County.

• Zoning Inspector Richard Zopf terminated from position

  By Lauren ShowsDecember 14, 2023

  

  During the most recent regular meeting of the Miami Township Board of Trustees on Monday, Dec. 4, longtime Zoning Inspector Richard Zopf was terminated from his position, which he’s held for 24 years.

• Miami Township Trustees | Zoning hearing set, letter discussed

  By Lauren ShowsSeptember 28, 2023

  

  The BZA will consider a temporary-use permit to allow the Chamber of Commerce to sell bottled water and T-shirts at the sunflower field owned by local residents David and Sharen Neuhardt.

• Township trustees support Polecat Road speed change

  By Lauren ShowsAugust 31, 2023

  

  Village Planning Commission member Scott Osterholm spoke before the trustees on a plan to request that Greene County change the speed limit on Polecat Road to 35 mph outside Village limits near Ellis Park, on a stretch of road located within Miami Township.

• Trustees bid Chief Altman farewell

  By Lauren ShowsAugust 18, 2023

  

  Following an executive session, the trustees later voted to appoint current Assistant Fire Chief Dennis Powell to the position of  interim fire chief, effective Friday, Aug. 11, beginning at 5 p.m.

• Fire Chief Colin Altman to retire after 29 years

  By Megan BachmanAugust 3, 2023

  

  Chief Colin Altman is hanging up his turnout coat for good. After 29 years at the helm of Miami Township Fire-Rescue, Altman retires later this month.