Things to know this week include a proposed ban on recreational marijuana sales in Southington and an application to open a retail cannabis store in Meriden.
Annual memorial ceremonies commemorating 9/11 are also planned locally, this year marking the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks, while the Meriden City Council could decide on establishing a police civilian review board.
Here’s the complete list of eight things to know as you start your week.
Meriden will host its annual 9/11 service at City Hall beginning at 8:39 a.m. on Saturday. Speakers include Mayor Kevin Scarpati, Police Chief Roberto Rosado, Fire Chief Ken Morgan and City Manager Tim Coon. City Councilor Bob Williams will emcee the event.
The service will include an invocation by the Meriden Police Department chaplain and the raising of a flag that flew over the World Trade Center site.
Wallingford’s annual 9/11 remembrance ceremony is scheduled for 10 a.m. Saturday outside Town Hall, 45 S. Main St. In case of rain, the program will be moved inside to council chambers.
In Southington, the town will hold a brief service beginning at 8:46 a.m., the time the first plane crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center. It will be held at the town’s 9/11 memorial in Plantsville, located at the corner of Summer Street and Main Street.
Since that date falls this year during Cheshire’s Fall Festival, a 9/11 memorial service will be held at Bartlem Park, the site of the festival.
The Meriden City Council will meet in-person in the auditorium of Lincoln Middle School, 164 Centennial Ave., at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday. Members of the public who would prefer to attend remotely will have that option as the meeting will also be accessible through the city’s website, https://www.meridenct.gov/. Masks are required for in-person attendance.
Among the items the council is scheduled to take up is a committee report recommending a new chapter in the City Code to form a Civilian Police Review Board. The council will also take up city officials’ request to appropriate $235,085 in federal American Rescue Act funds to purchase information technology equipment.
Southington town planners could decide on a ban on local recreational marijuana sales during a meeting Tuesday.
The Planning and Zoning Commission has zoning language prepared that would prevent local stores from selling marijuana. State law changed this summer allowing such sales but the state law also allows towns to prevent them.
The Planning and Zoning Commission is schedulded to meet Sept. 7 at 7 p.m. at the John Weichsel Municipal Center, 196 N. Main St.
The Meriden Planning Commission will hold a public hearing on the application for a retail cannabis store Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. at City Council chambers in City Hall.
Blue Leaf/BGE, LLC has filed a request for a special permit to operate a retail store at 28 W. Main St. in the city’s transit-oriented district.
City officials last month amended their zoning ordinances to allow three dispensaries in the city’s commercial zones.
The following night, on Wednesday, the Board of Education will meet at 6 p.m. in the auditorium of Edison Middle School, at 1355 N Broad St. Masks will be required.
According to a meeting agenda, the board is scheduled to vote on a revised 2021-2022 school budget, to reflect a more than $2.1 million increase in state Education Cost Sharing Grant funding.
That meeting follows the official grand opening of Edison as a Meriden district school. That opening is scheduled for 5 p.m.
The Wallingford Public Utilities Commmission is scheduled to meet Tuesday 6:30 p.m. at the Electric Division office, 100 John St., to set a date for a public hearing on Electric Division rates for miscellaneous charges and fees and approve write-offs.
Two residential site plan applications will be reviewed by the Cheshire Inland Wetlands and Watercourses Commission during its Wednesday meeting, which will be convened at the Town Hall at 7:30 p.m. A submission from Strathmore Holdings LLC would add houses to East Mitchell Avenue, while an application from Kensett Square LLC would construction units on Old Towne Road.
The Wallingford Board of Education is scheduled to hold a special meeting Thursday. No further information was immediately available on what is slated to be discussed.
Correction: The date of the opening of Southington Public Schools was incorrect in last week’s Things to Know.
