BANGOR TWP., Mich. (WNEM) – Marijuana is hitting the asphalt in Bangor Township. The municipality is preparing to receive more than $750,000 from the Michigan Regulation and Taxation of Marijuana Act.
“All the things that you would expect your government to provide, this helps make that possible,” Bangor Township Supervisor Glenn Rowley said.
The township has allocated a big portion of the funding to go towards its infrastructure.
“We allocated a half million dollars to repave the roads for the 2025 year. We can use it for that. We also have a lot of projects where we’re going to be replacing drinking water lines,” Rowley said.
Water lines that Rowley said have been in place for more than a century.
“We have a very big project that’s going to be a few years in the making, where it’s going to repave State Park Drive. That’s also going to have where it’s new sewer lines that will be put in and new water lines,” Rowley said. “Underneath that road is the water that we drink that comes out of a transmission line that was put in in 1889. The new one was put in in 1921.”
Along with the infrastructure, Rowley said the money will also go towards the township’s daily operations and will prevent the need to cut back on services because of a lack of funding.
“If we didn’t have this extra $756,000 we’d probably be in a world of hurt,” Rowley said. “This money from the excise tax of marijuana, it makes us so we can pay our bills.”
Bangor Township is not the only municipality in Bay County receiving such a large sum of money. Bay City will also receive more than $750,000 from the adult-use marijuana distribution funding.
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