Springfield, IL (CAPITOL CITY NOW) – It’s time for cannabis tax revenue to really help Springfield’s east side. Community relations director Ethan Posey said so.

“With the minority business institute we are putting together,” Posey told aldermen last Tuesday, “we are taking some time to make sure that it’s right, but I think this is an opportunity for the Office of Planning and Economic Development and the Office of Community Relations to sit down with each of the people who applied for this grant and didn’t get it, saying, what went wrong here, and then we can tailor the curriculum in our business institute for specifically the challenges that are popping up.”

City council will vote Wednesday on a list of grants to businesses and homeowners. The meeting is Wednesday because Tuesday is National Night Out.

Homeowners’ grants total $165,073, and business grants total $406,000.

 

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