LEICESTER — The town has received $268,328 so far in revenue from recreational marijuana sales at Cultivate through the end of February — a number that town officials welcomed but don’t expect to continue.

“We’re very happy to have received a good amount, but it’s going to go down because so many dispensaries have opened since then,” said Kristen Forsberg, assistant to the town administrator in Leicester. “The craziness that we saw in the first weeks has gone down.”

And if you thought the crowds were bad in Leicester, just imagine them in Northampton, which received $737,331 in pot tax revenue through January, according to the Daily Hampshire Gazette.

The money for Leicester comes from two sources.

The state allows a 3 percent excise tax on all gross sales of recreational marijuana at Cultivate, which resulted in $193,328.26 in first quarter sales taxes for the months of November/December, January and February, according to Ms. Forsberg. The money was delivered on March 28.

“We don’t anticipate this amount going forward,” Ms. Forsberg reiterated, noting that Cultivate was one of the first two recreational marijuana stores on the East Coast when its doors opened the week of Thanksgiving and Black Friday. Today there are more than a dozen retail marijuana shops open in the Commonwealth. The next disbursement is anticipated at the end of June.

Selectmen also approved a 3 percent community impact fee on all gross sales of recreational marijuana as part of the community-host agreement with Cultivate. The five-year agreement requires Cultivate to pay a minimum of $75,000 and a maximum of $250,000 each year based on sales. So far, Cultivate has paid $75,000, according to Ms. Forsberg.

The two revenue sources add up to $268,328.26.

Ms. Forsberg said the town is definitely looking to use the money to improve parks. Officials are still discussing other uses, but Ms. Forsberg said ideas that have come up include capital equipment, including firetrucks, ambulances, highway vehicles, and using the money toward operating costs.

But they are not budgeting based on the money — yet.

“Once we have a full 12 months of data, we can look at budgeting,” Ms. Forsberg said. “We want to budget conservatively. Just knowing that the first payment is larger than remaining payments, it’s hard to budget based on that. We hope to budget it in FY 2021.”