Maumee council approves sewer reimbursements, new funds and temporary moratorium on marijuana businesses

Maumee City Council voted to approve a package of ordinances and resolutions that the council said will fund sanitary sewer rehabilitation projects, create new accounting funds for water debt and energy improvement activities, adjust 2025 appropriations and extend a temporary moratorium on marijuana-related commercial activity.

The package included three council resolutions declaring the city’s intent to reimburse its sewer fund with proceeds of tax-exempt debt for multiple sanitary sewer rehabilitation phases, council approval to create a water debt service fund (Fund 338) and an energy special improvement district fund (Fund 523), an amendment to the 2025 appropriations, and a 12-month moratorium on the siting or construction of medical or recreational marijuana cultivation, processing or retail facilities.

Council members repeatedly said the sewer-related measures are to enable use of tax-exempt debt and to comply with prior planning for phased sanitary-sewer rehabilitation. Resolution 016-2025 concerns the Uptown Sanitary Sewer Rehabilitation Phase 4; Resolution 018-2025 concerns the Uptown Sanitary Sewer Rehabilitation Phase 5; and Resolution 019-2025 concerns the East End Sanitary Sewer Rehabilitation Phase 1. The council approved each of those resolutions on third reading and recorded affirmative roll-call votes.

The council also approved, by separate votes, a resolution authorizing the director of finance to establish a water debt…