Morgan Township Trustees on Nov. 24 approved a set of routine and year-end measures including payments, supplemental budgets for fire payroll, a county contract for road retracing, and a repaving contract for Howard Road.

The board approved the Morgan Township/Butler County payment listing covering 11/11/2025–11/24/2025, with amounts described by staff as roughly $248,010.62. Trustees moved and voted to accept the payment listing after the fiscal officer presented the item.

Fiscal officer Tina moved to rescind Resolution 114-2025 (related to earlier fund transfers) and presented supplemental appropriations: $35,000 to fund 2191 and $15,000 to fund 211 for fire-department payroll. "After review of the funds left after doing this payroll, we have to change that a little bit," Tina said when introducing the rescission and the supplements. Trustees approved both supplemental budget resolutions.

On roads, the trustees approved a Butler County Engineer's Office contract for 2026 retracing of the northern portion of the township at an estimated $14,915.57, and they approved a separate contract to repave Howard Road (Race Lane to Howard Creek), a 0.721-mile section with an estimated cost of $163,123.30. Mark, representing the road department, told trustees the Howard Road segment "hasn't been resurfaced since 1994" and argued the project is needed because of high traffic on the route. The board decided to fund the Howard Road repaving from fund 2021 so the township retains flexibility to transfer resources from fund 1000 to 2021 if necessary.

The board approved a multi-part technology and security purchase from Oxford Computer, aggregated to $4,725, that included a doorbell camera, router and switch upgrades using Ubiquiti equipment, community-center network work and battery-backup replacements. One trustee abstained on the motion. Chief Minery also requested and received approval for a purchase order to Bushleman's Supply Company for $4,121.08 (fund 2281) to buy garage door openers for the fire station.

Administrative actions included approving temporary appropriations for the 2026 budget (effective Jan. 1, 2026), issuing township credit cards with $1,000 limits for newly elected trustees Kyle Day and Brett Updike, and a resolution to remove trustees Daryl Huff and Jeff Cole from the LCNB checking account as of Dec. 31, 2025 and add Day and Updike beginning Jan. 1, 2026. The board also voted to cancel the Dec. 8 meeting and confirmed the Dec. 22 organizational meeting when new trustees will be seated.

The meeting closed with an adjournment at 7:33 p.m.

The trustees did not take public comment on any items that changed funding allocations beyond the approved supplemental budgets; the fiscal officer and department heads said staff would follow up on any outstanding implementation steps.