The current seats, Clay Township: the one township this place cannot yet name its government for

As of November 2026 · the fixture as it stands after this section

The state of the fixture: The banked Government file verifies the current seats of Harris Township (Trustee Kenneth E. Lindsay; Board Bob Fox, Charles (Chuck) Sulok, Karen Vargo), the county, the school boards, and the library board as of 11 November 2026, and this section's State Board of Accounts pull firms the Harris line further (the trustee entry above). Clay Township — the township under the designated place's western quarter, the more populous of the two, at 34,235 people in 2020 — remains the exception, and this section does not cure it. The searches the banked file's named settler prescribes were run: the Board's report library for Clay Township, St. The sitting Clay trustee and board of November 2026 therefore still print as a named gap, in the banked file's own terms: the holders across 2015–2018, 2019–2022, and 2023–2026 unverified, and Sean O'Brien's incumbency or non-incumbency in 2026 expressly unsettled. What does stand at current strength is the office's seat and frame: the Clay Township Trustee and Poor Relief office at 18355 Auten Road, South Bend, in the building that is also Clay Fire Station 22, and the candidates of 3 November 2026 for the term beginning 1 January 2027, printed whole in the trustee entry above.

The settler, unchanged and now searched: The State Board of Accounts' examination and compliance reports for Clay Township, St. Joseph County — each of which prints a schedule of officials, trustee and board chair, term by term — together with the township's Indiana Gateway annual financial report filings and the Clerk's 2026 candidate and canvass record. The reports exist as a class; the later Clay reports were not opened from open sources, and the gap is printed at that exact size rather than papered over with a directory name no official schedule confirms.

Sources:

1. Government (banked) — the verified seats of Harris Township, the county, Penn-Harris-Madison, and Mishawaka-Penn-Harris as of 11 November 2026; the Clay office at 18355 Auten Road; the gap statement for the Clay succession (GAP-GOV-2) and the 2026 results (GAP-GOV-1), both standing after this section.
2. Indiana State Board of Accounts report library (in.gov), searched November 2026 for Clay Township, St. Joseph County — the 2006 examination report (B31110) reached at first-hand strength; no later Clay schedule of officials opened from open sources.
3. Settler: State Board of Accounts, later Clay Township examination/compliance reports (schedules of officials); Indiana Gateway annual financial report filings for Clay Township; St. Joseph County Clerk, 2026 candidate and canvass record.