did not attend Tuesday's meeting where the already typed policy was first introduced and then quickly adopted by Jeff Ferrell and Dwelle.

Fiscal Officer Pam Kellam also was not in attendance and said she was not informed that a meeting was scheduled. Diane Schaefer, who was elected fiscal officer in November but won't take office until April, did attend. She was previously hired by trustees to serve as an assistant fiscal officer until she takes office.

Ferrell said he, Dwelle and Schaefer recently attended a trustee convention in Columbus that included a seminar about township policies where the issue of a spokesperson policy was addressed.

Ferrell said he wrote out the new policy and gave it to John Coppeler, the township's attorney, to review. Ferrell said Coppeler made a few changesEtchingham

Etchingham is a village and civil parish in the Rother district of East Sussex in southern England. The village is located approximately  southeast of Royal Tunbridge Wells in Kent and  northwest of Hastings, on the A265, half a mile west of its junction with the A21.

Etchingham railway station is on the Hastings Line to London Charing Cross and Cannon Street.

History 
Etchingham was a manor a long time before the Norman conquest of 1066; after this time the manor was taken over by the Normans. In 1166 it was left to the de Achyngham (Etchingham) family, who were well-known landowners of the time. The Etchingham family papers record that William was so pleased with his right-hand man that he gave him the land now known as Etchingham.

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