page_title: Prairie Township, Franklin County, Ohio
section_title: Government
hierarchical_section_title: Prairie Township, Franklin County, Ohio / Government
caption_attribution_description: English: The Prairie Township administrative center serves as the township administrative center, main law enforcement office, and fire department headquarters.
context_page_description: Prairie Township is one of the seventeen townships of Franklin County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2010 census the population was 16,498. Prairie Township is on the far west side of Franklin County touching the east side of Madison County.
  Each year Prairie Township Fire Department hosts the Annual Fish Fry and Classic Car Show the last weekend of June.
  Westland Area Business Association holds the Annual Independence Parade on the last Saturday of June in Prairie Township.
context_section_description: The township is governed by a three-member board of trustees, who are elected in November of odd-numbered years to a four-year term beginning on the following January 1.  Prairie Township adopted a limited home rule form of government (ORC Section 504) in 2002. Two are elected in the year after the presidential election and one is elected in the year before it. There is also an elected township fiscal officer, who serves a four-year term beginning on April 1 of the year after the election, which is held in November of the year before the presidential election. Vacancies in the fiscal officership or on the board of trustees are filled by the remaining trustees.
caption: Prairie Township Administrative Center
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