 Every year on the second Tuesday in March townships across Minnesota hold their annual meeting and elections during Township Day. Township Day is a way for small grassroots communities to come together and voice their opinions on local issues with other townships and residents and officials. Minnesota has 1,781 townships in total. Many also use the day to hold their elections for township offices and to vote for their annual tax living. I think what makes the townships unique is that they get the town residents get what I look at as personal service. You know it's easy for them to call a supervisor, call somebody on the planning and zoning committee and they can get you know they get their questions answered right away and we're just smaller. We're a smaller group. If you call the county it might be a while before they get to it but typically with a township we can get to it that same day. There are 28 townships in Crow Wing County and approximately 940,000 people across Minnesota are residents of a township. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland news please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.