In an explosively charged meeting, the Menominee City Council voted 6-3 Monday on a resolution expressing the city council’s desire to pass an ordinance to authorize seven marijuana businesses in Menominee.
Mayor Jean Stegeman, Donna Marineau and Michael DeDamos voted against it. In contrast, Bill Plemel, Josh Jones, Dennis Klitzke, Jackie Nutter, Doug Robinson and Joe Dulak voted for it.
That decision came after the council voted 5-4 to accept the resolution on the agenda and not move it to another meeting and after another vote failed 3-6 to remove action items from the agenda.
“I feel this meeting was called in violation of the Open Meetings Act,” said mayor Jean Stegeman.
Suppose the city is found to be in violation of the Open Meetings Act. In that case, another meeting will need to be held, and action items will need to be revoted on. The removal of action items on the agenda was an attempt to allow the meeting to happen without any action taken on agenda items.
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