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CALUMET While the Village Council has invested more than a year, and thousands of dollars, in restructuring of the zoning ordinance for the sake of marijuana-related businesses, the investments have come at the expense of other council business. One example, according to a source, is the village’s annual budget. The council is on deadline to pass a budget by Feb. 25, and while no one has yet seen it, it is being drafted by former Village President Dave Geisler. Other questions have also arisen under the new administration, while others persist.
Village Clerk Kevin Weir who was recently reappointed to the position, brought up a number of them in a recent email to Village President Brian Abramson, Manager Caleb Katz, and Trustees Andrew Ranville, Roxanne King and Lori Weir.
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CALUMET Trustee Roxanne King slammed two Planning Commission nominees during the regular January Village Council meeting. The nominees had been put forward at the previous regular meeting in December. They were the same two that King had opposed at that meeting, in spite of the fact that the Planning Commission had not bothered to meet in December due to the shortage of members.
The Village Council cannot move ahead on finalizing ordinances until the ordinance drafts are completed by the Planning Commission and submitted to the council for approval, but the commission cannot function with less than enough members for a quorum.
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Jackson Dominski, MSA student (Courtesy of Metropolitan School of the Arts)
Phara Rodrigue, MSA parent, Co-Chair Metro Anti-Bias Action Committee (Courtesy of Metropolitan School of the Arts)
Roger C. Jeffrey, MSA Dance Dept. Chair and Co-Chair Metro Anti-Bias Action Committee (Courtesy of Metropolitan School of the Arts)
Rae Vann, MSA parent Co-Chair Metro Anti-Bias Action Committee (Courtesy of Metropolitan School of the Arts)
Metropolitan School of the Arts (MSA) announced Aviara Padgett (grade 4) and Jackson Dominski (grade 6), both of Alexandria, Va., as its inaugural winners of its Metropolitan Anti-Bias Committee s (MABAC) Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Service Project Activity. The project was open to all MSA students to submit and enter a raffle for a $100 gift card. The winning projects included Dominski s creative music, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbmcMNNOWmY&feature=youtu.be; and Padgett won for her poem, We are All Humans. Go to www.metropolitanarts.or
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