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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.
That’s the beauty of a public hearing you have the opportunity to come voice your opinion to both manager Honeysett and the village council and I would encourage you to do so if you feel so strongly about it
Don’t you know they’re making the village better? More attractive? Just look at how pretty the town is with tanker trucks rolling between pot banners and junk sale stores. Smells good too. Skunk #1, sour diesel, kush, ethanol and sour milk.
Everybody does NOT have an equal voice. The council recently changed the rules. They curtailed public speaking to 3 minutes total and limit what you can say and how you can say it. Under threat of police ejection. They only go through the motion of a public hearing because it’s still legally required. The deal is already stamped and approved.
The council follows the manager. They have a history of making poor decisions, jumping on the bandwagon and grasping at straws, digging in their heels instead of correcting course, throwing good money after bad. They’re not going to change. This is what you settle for year after year. Light up, shut up, chill. Or move out of town like I did.