Government

Government

• West Bloomfield is a township.
  • Township: "A subdivision of a county traditionally having six miles on each side and varying in importance as a unit of government in the 16 states that have them. Townships in the Midwest are sometimes referred to as Congressional Townships because public land surveys in the last century initially labeled them thus on maps authorized by the Congress." (The HarperCollins Dictionary of American Government and Politics. Jay M. Shafritz. NY: HarperPerennial, 1992, p. 571).
  • A township board is the governing body consisting of a supervisor, clerk, treasurer and two to four trustees. ("City vs. Township, What’s the Main Difference", West Bloomfield Eccentric Feb. 25, 1980).

• County:

  Oakland

Last Update: April 18, 2007