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Thomson Township resident meetings have drawn crowds recently, as seen here Tuesday, as discussions continued about paying off a $400,000 loan that had slipped under the town board's radar during the annual meeting and levy setting in March.
The Thomson Township board of supervisors followed the recommendation of both residents and an auditor when it voted to pay off a $400,000 loan in its entirety at its meeting Sept. 5. In turn, that vote led to a much less rambunctious adjourned annual meeting Tuesday, Sept. 10, when residents came together a second time for a final vote on next year's tax levy.
Normally a quick meeting with just a final vote on the levy, last month's adjourned annual meeting was contentious following news from board chairwoman Ruth Janke of an error in the preliminary tax levy that residents approved in March....
