The proposal by Braintree Mayor Joseph Sullivan would ban recreational marijuana retailers and production facilities in town.

BRAINTREE – Mayor Joseph Sullivan plans to ask the town council to enact a ban on recreational marijuana retailers and growers in the town.

Sullivan said he plans to submit the measure in the next week.

“It’s an opportunity for us to take the right step,” the mayor said in an interview.

Meanwhile, the town council’s ordinance and rules committee has been looking at putting a question on the Nov. 7 town election ballot which would do the same thing.

The committee is expected to decide on its recommendation at a meeting scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Tuesday.

District 6 Town Councilor Dan Clifford, who chairs the committee, said they could either decide on action by the council or a voter referendum.

“That will be part of it,” Clifford said after a committee meeting Monday night.

He said the committee is pretty much agreed on prohibiting recreational marijuana facilities in town.

“It’s the medical marijuana that we’re struggling with,” Clifford said.

In the November election, the town’s voted 10,689 to 8,023 against legalizing recreational marijuana.

Sullivan said that a second referendum is unnecessary under the state marijuana law signed by Gov. Charlie Baker on Friday and only town council action is needed.

“There was a referendum in November that the voters of the town very convincingly said they didn’t want to participate in recreational marijuana,” Sullivan said.

During Monday night’s meeting, the committee heard from Braintree Police Chief Paul Shastany, Stoughton Police Chief Donna McNamara and Walpole Police Chief John Carmichael who all oppose recreational marijuana, feeling it would increase, rather than reduce, problems.