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		<title>Cecil County Council OKs Budget, Last Minute Cuts to Cops, Schools, Libraries. Property Tax Rate Frozen</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 20:09:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Schwerzler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Cecil County Council approved the first-ever county budget under the new Charter government late Tuesday night, after last-minute cuts of $689,000 primarily targeting law enforcement, public schools and libraries. The Council adopted an operating budget for Fiscal 2014, which begins on 7/1/13, providing $173,532,772 to support county government and services. As part of the budget decisions, the Council accepted the proposal by County Executive Tari Moore to freeze the current property tax rate at .9907. As a result, most property owners will see a drop in tax bills since state assessments of property values have been declining and all areas of the county have now been re-assessed under the state’s three-year cycle of property value reviews. (County property taxes are assessed based on the value of the property as established by a state agency.) Moore’s budget boosted spending in a number of areas, especially county public schools, but she was able to hold the line on the tax rate by dipping into the county’s accumulated “fund balance’ or un-tapped reserve accounts, by $4 million. The Council’s actions Tuesday night will mean that the fund balance will take a slightly lesser hit to balance the overall operating budget. Moore sat [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US Army Corps, State Bring Tent Show to Earleville Dump; Residents Question &#8220;Scare Tactics,&#8221; Costs</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 00:44:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Cecil Times Special Report The US Army Corps of Engineers and state officials hosted a tented open house at the Corps dumpsite in Earleville Saturday to answer residents’ questions and show plans for cleaning up the dump that a federal study concluded had polluted local drinking water wells. But some residents questioned the plans and a recent letter that suggested homeowners might have to pay as much as $3,000 a year to get safe drinking water to replace wellwater contaminated by the Corps. “Is this a scare tactic by ACE [the Corps] or someone else or persons so the folks will reject the community water system,” Bill Haines, president of the Bay View Estates homeowners’ association, wrote in a recent email to state and county officials. The Corps and the Maryland Port Administration (MPA), who want to re-open the dumpsite to additional deposits of shipping channel dredge spoils, should “stop playing games,” Haines added. Meanwhile, a new chart presented on Saturday suggesting potential costs of a new water system to local residents, raises questions about the methodology used by a quasi-private, state-established agency— an agency that could have a potential conflict of interest. Also in question is why the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil County Council Backs Most of County Exec&#8217;s Budget; Rejects Cuts to Cops, Schools, EMS&#8211; But Some Sewer Fees Uncertain</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 20:32:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Cecil County Council voted late Thursday afternoon to support most of County Executive Tari Moore’s Fiscal 2014 budget proposal, repeatedly rejecting proposals by Councilors Diana Broomell (R-4) and Michael Dunn to (R-3) to slash money for county public schools, public safety and infrastructure projects. The votes showed the intentions of the majority of the Council on a wide range of budget issues but are not yet final or binding. The Council must adopt a county budget in a formal legislative session on Tuesday 5/21/13, and some of the amendments voted down on Thursday could be presented again. But on most points, the intent of the majority was clear and few if any changes are expected. But there was still one major issue left open: how to ease the impact of a proposed huge boost in “major facility fees” for sewage services—the charges assessed to new business customers seeking to hook-up to the county’s sewage treatment plants. The fees are currently set at $10,000 per unit (some businesses require many ‘units’ to meet their needs) but Moore proposed boosting the fee to $16,100. Pending a solution on how to phase-in the big increases, the Council indicated it would not endorse [...]]]></description>
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