RESOLUTION TO ESTABLISH TOWNSHIP OFFICERS SALARY

This resolution is used when NO ANNUAL MEETING is held.

This sample combines the offices for illustration only. A separate resolution should be adopted for each office for which a change is proposed (Attorney General Opinion 6422).

WHEREAS, according to MCL 41.95(3), in a township that does not hold an annual meeting, the salary for officers composing the township board shall be determined by the township board, and

WHEREAS, the township board deems that an adjustment in the salary of the office of (supervisor, clerk, treasurer OR trustee) is warranted in consideration of (the increase in the cost of living and/or additional responsibilities taken by the supervisor, clerk, treasurer OR trustee) since township board members’ salaries were last adjusted, now

BE IT RESOLVED, that as of (effective date), the salary of the office of (supervisor, clerk, treasurer OR trustee) shall be as follows:

Supervisor: $______ salary (not directly performing assessing)

$______ salary if properly certified as assessor and directly performing assessing

OR:

Clerk: $______ salary

OR:

Treasurer: $______ salary

(Or two-part option: $____ salary / $____ salary if two tax collections per year)

OR:

Trustee: $______ (If paid by salary. Per diem/per meeting compensation is NOT subject to the annual meeting.)

This resolution offered by board member _____________________.

Supported by board member _____________________.

Upon a roll call vote, the following voted: ___Aye ___No.

The supervisor declared the resolution adopted.

________________________________, Clerk

NOTE: This resolution uses optional two-part salary language that a board may choose to adopt. If a board does not use the two-part salary format, it should adopt a single, fixed salary per office.

This resolution assumes that there is no annual meeting. It assumes that there is no salary compensation commission established by MCL 41.95(4).

Pursuant to MCL 41.95(7), a salary resolution cannot result in a reduction of salary during an official’s term of office unless the responsibilities and requirements of that office are diminished, and the official agrees in writing to that reduction.

If, within 30 days after the township board votes, a petition signed by 10% of the qualified electors of the township is filed requesting that the question be submitted to the electorate, the township board shall call a special election and submit the question of salary to the electors.