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Constantine municipal officials have set a date to conduct a public hearing related to an Industrial Tax-Exemption certificate.
Village council members recently set Jan. 6 as the date to entertain a request from Dairy Distillery Alliance. If approved, the certificate would allow the facility exemption from real and/or personal property taxes for up to 12 years.
However, it would still be required to pay to the village what is called Industrial Facility Tax.
The public hearing is a stipulation set forth by the state and is one of several steps a business must follow when requesting an IFT.
Dairy Distillery Alliance plans to manufacture ethanol from a milk permeate, which is a byproduct of Michigan Milk Producers’ ultrafiltration of its milk, company officials said.
What crap! Ethanol produced downtown ruins the whole village! All on taxpayer money put into downtown family and community projects including the crown jewel, Riverview Park with a river walk, fitness trail, pavilion and children’s playground sitting on top of a fuel production site completely underwritten by taxpayers, now doesn’t have to pay taxes for 12 years?
Manager Honeysett, his DDA doll and the council menbers behind this pollution factory must put their money where their votes are. They must move downtown. Live right next to this village assault. Your kids can play in the park. Your family can cookout to wafting on ethanol and pot air while ethanol trucks roll by.