The Select Board unanimously voted to contain and refer a new Host Community Agreement for Solar Therapeutics, a retail marijuana establishment for retail sales located at 493 Faunce Corner Road, to town counsel in a meeting on Monday, Oct. 21.

The Select Board had previously drafted a Host Community Agreement, but the state said that it “was not good,” according to Chair Shawn McDonald.

As a result, the state wrote up its own agreement, which tells the Cannabis Control Commission, which was formed to implement and administer the laws enabling access to medical and adult use of marijuana in the Commonwealth, what it needs to do to move forward with Solar Therapeutics, McDonald said.

It was unclear how the state’s agreement differed from the Select Board’s or what specifically the board disliked about it.

At the meeting McDonald questioned what would happen if the board chose not to sign the agreement.

If the board chose not to accept the agreement, Solar Therapeutics could go back to the Cannabis Control Commission and “require us” to enter into the state’s Host Community Agreement, said Assistant Town Administrator Chris Vitale.

The Select Board could also face fines, Vitale added.

Despite these potential ramifications, all members of the Select Board decided against signing the agreement because, as McDonald said, they believed that the Cannabis Control Commission sold them “a bill of goods” but later “changed the game.”

“Now they’re making everybody play by their rules and not by what is best for the community,” he said.

“This carrot that they stuck in front of every Commonwealth city and town saying, ‘You’re going to make a lot of money on this,’ has basically gone down toward a dried up prune,” McDonald added.

The town of Dartmouth was expecting to see a couple of hundred thousand dollars out of the original agreement with the Cannabis Control Commission, but now the town “will be lucky if we see a quarter of it,” he said.

“Let’s see where it goes, don’t sign it,” said Select Board member Stanley Mickelson. “I won’t sign it either.”

The Select Board will refer this decision to town counsel so that he can be briefed on “potential ramifications,” Vitale said.

“I don’t have a problem going toe-to-toe with the state,” McDonald said.