Observer: That’s a grow facility?
Steinmann: Grow, manufacture, and then obviously they sell to retailers. In those particular situations— if it if it’s strictly going to be for adult use—then our revenue stream is greatly improved. Basically, once they’re growing plants, they sell the plant to the manufacturer, who is going to make it into whatever form that they’re going to put it in.
We get 2% of that sale. Okay. Then the manufacturer does what they need to do. They sell it to the retailer. We get 2% of that sale. Then once the retailer has it, it walks out the door. We get 2% of that. So that is where we can see significant increases in revenue to the town.
Observer: How many companies does this involve?
Steinmann: Currently, there’s five companies. There’s currently a moratorium until October, and then we kind of revisit to see what we can do. I think we should cap the number of retailers at five. As far as the growers and the manufacturers, I don’t think we should have a limit as long as we can put them in industrial areas, because basically it has no effect on the public.
The public can’t visit these places and it’s a very good revenue stream for any community, and people have to remember that. Some people say we shouldn’t be doing it in Ewing Township. They have that belief and that’s fine, but at the end of the day, what they forget is that people can just go across the border to another town and get it anyway. It’s not like they’re going to stop it from coming into the township. You know, that doesn’t happen.