If your pet project (fix your road, for example) is not funded in the budget, it will not be done. The 2026 fiscal year budgeting process will be done by the Board of Trustees in three open-to-the-public, but not video-taped, open-meetings-act-compliant-special-meetings termed “workshops” on September 11, 18, 25 during working hours. Watch the township website for times and agendas for each. The 2026 budget will probably be worked out by an informal process involving a non-voting decision-making process. This could be improved on by voting on formal motions. Then this 2026 budget will be presented, and approved or rejected, by law, at a “budget hearing” as part of a regular Board meeting. This gives you four opportunities to comment on the budget, as all these meetings must allow public comment per the open meetings act.

If you attend, you will also hear more frank and informative discussions then you will hear when Board meetings are being video-taped.