Comments on: McCarthy Marks 100+ Days as Cecil County Exec at CBL Event; Warns of ‘Empty Bag’ in County Finances

By: scott carlson

scott carlson — Sun, 02 Apr 2017 01:13:37 +0000

I can’t imagine why Hogan, like past Governors, have bypassed Cecil County in grant monies, again. When the County Executive slams his budget, doesn’t follow the tier map laws, what do you expect?
Allen’s first move was to increase County spending by hiring in new people. Will it pay off? He has also been on the council for how many years? You can’t play the new guy card anymore. Sad…

By: Russ Johnson

Russ Johnson — Sat, 01 Apr 2017 01:54:47 +0000

For the last 4 years Dr McCarthy voted in favor of those budgets that relied on raiding the fund balance, even though as a member of the County Council he was in a position to lead the charge against utilizing that strategy, and didn’t.

His proposed budget isn’t “balanced with current revenues.” as he states. It’s balanced with tax increases–5% property and 7% income. He prefaces all of this with “Key factors are the fact that the local economy and residents’ incomes are still recovering from the recession…” So let’s grow the size of county government on the backs of those “still recovering” with multiple, sizable, tax increases.

By: Joe C

Joe C — Fri, 31 Mar 2017 20:59:04 +0000

He failed that he voted FOR all of the Moore budgets while he was on the council!How can you be pro business when you are raising taxes (income and real estate) on small businesses? I now know why there is no recall provisions in the charter, because he would be gone!