By P.J. GLISSON
Marenisco – Members of the Marenisco Township Board of Trustees voted Monday evening to explore how a newly-created ordinance could address a window to possible marijuana enterprise within the township.
Newly-elected Supervisor Bruce Mahler made the matter his first major priority while directing his inaugural meeting after being elected to the role on Nov. 3.
In the summer of 2019, board members had passed a previous ordinance allowing marijuana enterprise within the township, but that vote was followed quickly by a petition to put the matter on the ballot, and township citizens then voted it down in November of last year.
In that same month, the board voted to rescind the ordinance, but no action had been taken since then.
“I have been approached by people asking what’s going on,” said Mahler. “I put it on the agenda because we can’t ignore it.”
The situation also requires attention because, in recent months, a Chicago entrepreneur has voiced interest in using the former Ojibway Correctional Facility as a marijuana processing center.
“We have no ordinance that allows it and no ordinance that doesn’t allow it,” said Mahler, adding that it puts the township in an awkward position.
The sale of the property lies in the hands of the state, and this region’s representatives of the state Senate and House have been working to authorize that sale by the…
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By P.J. GLISSON
Marenisco – Members of the Marenisco Township Board of Trustees voted Monday evening to explore how a newly-created ordinance could address a window to possible marijuana enterprise within the township.
Newly-elected Supervisor Bruce Mahler made the matter his first major priority while directing his inaugural meeting after being elected to the role on Nov. 3.
In the summer of 2019, board members had passed a previous ordinance allowing marijuana enterprise within the township, but that vote was followed quickly by a petition to put the matter on the ballot, and township citizens then voted it down in November of last year.
In that same month, the board voted to rescind the ordinance, but no action had been taken since then.
“I have been approached by people asking what’s going on,” said Mahler. “I put it on the agenda because we can’t ignore it.”
The situation also requires attention because, in recent months, a Chicago entrepreneur has voiced interest in using the former Ojibway Correctional Facility as a marijuana processing center.
“We have no ordinance that allows it and no ordinance that doesn’t allow it,” said Mahler, adding that it puts the township in an awkward position.
The sale of the property lies in the hands of the state, and this region’s representatives of the state Senate and House have been working to authorize that sale by the…
