Trustee Mark Petterson suggested reducing official minutes of the Independence Township Board to the minimum amount required by statute, as well as placing DVD recording of meetings in with the minutes.
Petterson said it would save the township from having to pay a stenographer $4,800 to do the minutes for Clerk Shelagh VanderVeen.
No motion was made because the majority of the board felt it was the clerk’s department and if she was happy with it, then they should leave it as is.