Never understood purpose of townships

Having read all about the salaries of our township supervisors, I am still highly confused about the purpose of townships. They are definitely entities that have not one purpose other than to cost taxpayers even higher taxes.

Now my question is — just what do the supervisors do? It looks like the supervisors supervise a whole lot of more employees who also have no purpose than cost the taxpayers more money. Having moved to this area from another state in the last five years and having lived in several other states over the years, states that have no townships, I, for one, cannot see any purpose for the existence of our townships.

Just what is it that they do? I would love an answer.

Edie Phillips

Huntley