SALINE TWP., MI — There was a major shakeup at Saline Township Hall Wednesday night, June 10, including the resignation of a longtime supervisor and changes to the makeup of the township Board of Trustees.
That includes a new treasurer and supervisor, a vacant trustee seat and a plan to appoint the recently resigned treasurer to a new role as deputy treasurer in the rural township south of Ann Arbor.
The township board continues to face uproar over Michigan’s first hyperscale data center for ChatGPT-creator OpenAI and cloud-computing giant Oracle, as the high-profile tech companies praise the project. While the township board voted to deny rezoning the land for the data center, construction began last fall after the township quickly settled a lawsuit with developer Related Digital and property owners…