page_title: Bethel Township, Miami County, Ohio
section_title: Government
hierarchical_section_title: Bethel Township, Miami County, Ohio / Government
caption_attribution_description: English: Bethel Township buildings
context_page_description: Bethel Township is one of the twelve townships of Miami County, Ohio, United States. The 2010 census found 4,843 people in the 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. 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.  The trustees also elect a township administrator.
  As of 2015, the trustees were Jerome Hirt, Beth van Haaren, and Gary Biggs, the fiscal officer was Deborah Watson, and the township administrator was Andy Ehrhart.
caption: Bethel Township Administration Facility
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