Comments on: Cecil County Exec Sees No Need for Action on Broadband Services; South Cecil Loses Internet Provider https://ceciltimes.com/2015/06/cecil-county-exec-sees-no-need-for-action-on-broadband-services-south-county-loses-main-internet-provider/ News and Views for Cecil County and the Eastern Shore of Maryland Fri, 25 Nov 2022 14:21:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 By: Harold McCanick https://ceciltimes.com/2015/06/cecil-county-exec-sees-no-need-for-action-on-broadband-services-south-county-loses-main-internet-provider/#comment-39109 Thu, 29 Oct 2015 10:52:55 +0000 https://ceciltimes.com/?p=4468#comment-39109 Let me know how voting for Tari Moore in 2016 works out for you.Her and her wasteful spending.

]]> By: Scott https://ceciltimes.com/2015/06/cecil-county-exec-sees-no-need-for-action-on-broadband-services-south-county-loses-main-internet-provider/#comment-39102 Wed, 28 Oct 2015 10:28:10 +0000 https://ceciltimes.com/?p=4468#comment-39102 Cecil County is in poor shape, from the pothole ridden Hwy 40 to terrible internet service provider –Armstrong. No wonder it is still called Cecil-tucky. Shame.

]]> By: Ron Lobos https://ceciltimes.com/2015/06/cecil-county-exec-sees-no-need-for-action-on-broadband-services-south-county-loses-main-internet-provider/#comment-33382 Tue, 23 Jun 2015 17:58:55 +0000 https://ceciltimes.com/?p=4468#comment-33382 Economic Development is the key to many of the problems that trouble Cecil County since that is what supplies jobs, tax revenue and hope to this county. It is also widely known that high speed internet services are needed to aid economic development. The problem here is that Executive Tari Moore has not made any serious progress in this field.

Instead, we have increased the county’s share of school funding by over 10% in just one year at the expense of public services like the Sheriffs department, libraries and county roads. Just 2 years ago, the county approved funding for a new trade school to be located on a 90 acre parcel of land that is zoned commercial and has public water and sewer. Many of us supported this new trade school. There are few schools around that sit on more than 40 acres, so after talking to the County Executive, council members and having the Cecil Business leaders discuss turning the remaining 50 acres into economic development business opportunities, elected officials made the decision to give the whole 90 acre parcel to the CCPS and then discuss this economic development matter later.

The trouble with this is that it give complete control of the parcel to the CCPS to do with what they please. So the first thing the CCPS did was lease 8 acres of this to the Farm Museum for $1/year for 99 years without asking for citizen input even though it was the taxpayers who purchased this. This was definitely an abuse of taxpayer money that I call redistribution of wealth.

Currently, there are still quite a few acres of land left that Tari has put Eric Senstrom and David Black in charge of coming up with a plan for. Here’s the problem. This land was given to the CCPS in such a manner that the CCPS is given complete control of whether they want to give anything back for economic development or whether they want to do something selfish like put solar panels up on this valuable piece of property that has infrastructure available for future jobs. I don’t believe that this failed system called the CCPS will do anything to help with economic development even though it is the revenue derived from it that keeps the CCPS operating.

There are plenty of flat roofs on the 30 schools and plenty of unusable land out there to place these solar panels on. Tari needs to take this Economic Development more seriously and that includes the development of a viable internet provider.

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