Who is my Township Trustee?

A Township Trustee is an elected official

Your Township Trustee office is a unit of local government with the goal of helping Township Residents as efficiently as they can.

Monroe County is comprised of eleven (11) Townships. The Township Trustee has the statutory responsibility to provide fire protection to the Township. Some Trustees have transferred that responsibility to either a Fire Territory or a Fire District.

When Can My Trustee Help?

The Trustee can provide assistance for shelter and utilities to people with immediate needs who meet the Township Guidelines, maintains abandoned cemeteries, serves as Notary Public, and investigates complaints of noxious weeds and rank vegetation in residential areas.


Your Township's Trustee is responsible for all applications for Township Assistance

Applications for township Assistance are reviewed according to uniform written standards without consideration of race, creed, nationality, or gender of the applicant or their family.

Township Trustees prepare written assistance guidelines, using the standards as defined by statute Indiana Code 12-20-5.5-2.

The Township Trustee reviews the Assistance Guidelines and updates them annually to reflect changes in the cost of basic necessities in the township and changes in the law.

These Township Assistance Guidelines are filed with the County Board of Commissioners.

These Guidelines must be posted prominently and visibly to the public in offices of the township trustee in which applications are accepted or processed.

Township Holidays 2025

  • New Years Day January 1st

  • MLK Jr. Day January 20th

  • Good Friday April 18th

  • Memorial Day May 26th

  • Juneteenth June 19th

  • Independence Day July 4th

  • Labor Day September 1st

  • Columbus Day October 13th

  • General Election Day Tuesday November 5th

  • Veterans Day November 11th

  • Day before Thanksgiving November 26th

  • Thanksgiving Day November 27th

  • Day after Thanksgiving November 28th

  • Christmas Eve December 24th

  • Christmas December 25th

  • Day after Christmas December 26th

  • New Years Eve Tuesday December 31st