Morgan Township trustees report museum cleanup, upcoming events and account balances

The Morgan Township trustees opened their meeting with a welcome and the Pledge of Allegiance before taking routine reports and community announcements. The minutes noted that volunteers moved artifacts to the community center and cleaned the museum after 4 to 5 inches of rain, and trustees laid out a slate of spring and summer events.

"By noon, 25 people were there, and everything had been moved to the community center," the clerk read from the March 21 minutes, which also thanked volunteers for cleaning floors, washing walls and scrubbing furniture. The chair said the recovery work and donated family histories collected during cleanup will help produce a new township calendar and expanded research boxes at the community center.

The treasurer reported the township's recent account activity and small museum expenses. "The regular checking account last meeting, the balance was $3,851.77. We received a donation of $10, and we also spent $98.60 on cleaning supplies for the museum. So the balance today is $3,763.17," the treasurer said. The clerk's reading also recorded that the museum checking balance moved from $85.37 after a $200 transfer from museum savings and a $111 alarm fee, leaving $174.37 in that account. A savings account balance was reported at $22,436.38.

Trustees scheduled public events tied to local history and community outreach: an Easter egg hunt at 3 p.m. on April 4 at the playground; an open house at the museum on election day (the fifth) from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.; a May 10 program featuring Joyce Lovins Browning as Martha Washington; a strawberry-festival open house on June 13; and a June 20 lecture marking the 1776 anniversary.

Chair comments emphasized volunteer help and the museum's role as a local repository: trustees are organizing boxes of family histories and files by village name to help residents looking for genealogical records. Attendees also volunteered to provide meeting refreshments; Lisa Glover signed up to bring cookies.

The meeting closed with a local guest, introduced by the chair, recounting his start in the body-shop business and local anecdotes. No formal motions or votes were recorded in the transcript.