Kalamazoo Township’s Board of Trustees voted to accept a new settlement agreement with former Treasurer Sherine Miller, closing out a legal dispute that followed her resignation earlier this year.
Miller resigned as Township Treasurer in March 2026 under a separation agreement that included a lump-sum payment and other terms. She later filed to run for the same treasurer seat in the August primary; the Township disputed her eligibility, and the matter ended up in Kalamazoo County Circuit Court, with the Township alleging she’d breached the separation agreement and Miller filing a counterclaim of her own.
Under the new agreement, Miller paid the Township $10,000 to resolve both the Township’s claim and her counterclaim, with both sides agreeing to dismiss the case with prejudice and without either side recovering costs or fees. According to the Board, Miller had already delivered the funds and signed the agreement before the meeting, without the board having formally requested or approved it yet. Supervisor David Combs told the board an attorney had agreed to the $10,000 figure the board had previously discussed internally.
The board approved the settlement on a voice vote with brief discussion. One trustee called it “a great resolution,” and Combs confirmed that the terms of the original March separation agreement remain unchanged and are reaffirmed by this new settlement — it resolves only the litigation that followed, not the earlier terms of her departure.
