Residents of Cleveland Township will hold their Annual Meeting on Saturday at 10 a.m. at the Township Hall.

The main order of business for registered township voters in attendance will be to consider how much pay elected township officials should receive in the coming fiscal year.

At their regular monthly meeting in February, members of the township board adopted salary resolutions that propose keeping annual pay for the supervisor at the same level for the second straight year – $8,350. Similarly, the clerk’s annual salary would remain the same at $10,710.

The base salary for the township treasurer would increase from $10,710 to $12,000 per year under the salary resolution. However, the amount actually paid to the treasurer would decrease because of a state-mandated change in the way fees are paid to the township for collecting summer school taxes.

In addition, a nine-percent raise in the “per diem” rate paid to the two township trustees was proposed. The trustees each would receive $80 per meeting they attend rather than the $72 per meeting they’ve received for the past several years.

Under state law, township residents can accept or reject the township board’s salary resolutions – or they can decide to either increase pay for elected officials or keep it the same.

Township supervisor Tim Stein noted that an annual budget hearing will also be held Saturday morning.

A draft budget prepared by the township board estimates that some $211,773 will be collected in revenues for fiscal 2007-08, which begins April 1 and ends March 31, 2008.

A proposed $151,500 spending plan for the year includes some $48,000 for fire and ambulance services for Cleveland Township from the Solon-Centerville Fire and Rescue Department.

Last year, voters in Cleveland Township overwhelmingly supported a half-mill property tax levy that this year will raise about $45,000 to help pay for fire and ambulance services. Stein explained that the Headlee Amendment to the state Constitution had already “rolled back” the millage from .5 to .4813 mills.

The estimated $60,273 in surplus revenues will bolster the township’s general fund reserve, Stein explained – reserves that had been depleted substantially in recent years because of the increasing costs of fire and emergency services coverage.

In addition, general fund reserves will be used to help pay for road improvement projects in the coming years, Stein said. He noted that the final $7,000 payment on a project to improve Hlavka Rd. had been recently disbursed. The township will now be in a position to consider working on other road improvement projects in collaboration with the county Road Commission, Stein said.

“At our annual meeting we also plan to go over some of the major events of the past year,” Stein added, “and we’d like to provide an overview of what we expect will be coming up.”

A report from the township’s Planning Commission will also be presented at the Cleveland Township Annual Meeting, Stein said. Refreshments will be served.

“We’re hoping for a good turnout and want our residents to know that everyone is encouraged to attend,” Stein said.