Clerk
Clerk - Elizabeth Whitt email Phone 517-223-0358 ext 103 Beginning March 12, 2024 Office Hours: 7:30am - 1:30pm, by appointment only 1:30pm-3pm
For burials or other matters that need immediate attention, please call 517-225-9499 (Monday, Thursday and Friday, between 9am and 3pm only). General cemetery information can be found here.
Deputy Clerk - Gabi Bresett email Phone 517-223-0358 ext 108
Statutory duties:
- Maintain custody of all township records
- Prepares warrants for township records
- Records and maintains township meeting minutes
- Responsible for special meeting notices
- Keeps the township book of oaths
- Publishes board meeting minutes (if taxable value is $85 million in 2018, annually indexed, or a charter township)
- Keeps voter registration file and conducts elections
- Keeps township ordinance book
- Prepares financial statements
- Delivers tax certificates to supervisor and county clerk by September 30
- Must appoint Deputy
- Must post a surety bond
In addition to the compensated statutory duties, the Clerk currently handles: personnel records, FOIA requests, cemetery and purchasing duties. The clerk oversees many of the day to day issues that come up in the office. This is not an all inclusive list, but can help direct questions the public may have about who to reach out to for assistance.
Elections
You can now register to vote online at the Michigan Bureau of Elections Web site.
For more information on the voting process visit the Michigan Secretary of State's website.
- Election Inspector Application
- Are you registered?
- Confused about Returning your Absentee Ballot?
- Online Absent Voter Application
- Permanent Absent Voter List Request Form
Clerks Corner