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		<title>Deputies, &#8216;Transparency&#8217; Advocates Challenge Hornberger at Budget ‘Town Hall’; Schools, Library Backers Join Chorus of Critics</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2022 01:58:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS ANALYSIS In the past, Cecil County budget hearings usually sounded like polite beg-a-thons, with primarily schools and libraries advocates pleading for funds. But this year, a budget “town hall” meeting in Elkton was a chorus of anger and direct challenges to County Executive Danielle Hornberger’s policies, lack of spending “transparency” and short-changing of Sheriff’s deputies. As a solid blue line of Sheriff’s deputies&#8211;some in full uniform and others in polo shirts bearing the agency’s insignia&#8211; stood in the back of the Elk Room at the county administration building on Thursday (3/3/2021), two deputies spoke for them and voiced their outrage. “We are in a crisis,” said Michael Zack, a 19-year veteran of the Sheriff’s Office and a former president of the FOP union representing deputies. Consistently low pay here, even as surrounding agencies have significantly boosted pay and are actively recruiting law enforcement officers, has led to a brain drain of experienced deputies here, he said. “While seeking election, deputies listened to you” saying that she was “a supporter of law enforcement,” Zack told Hornberger, who was seated in the front of the room but did not respond to citizen speakers. But Zack said that “townships in Pennsylvania” and [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil County Council Punts, So Far, on Budget; No Public Sessions Before 6/4 Vote</title>
		<link>https://ceciltimes.com/2019/05/cecil-county-council-punts-so-far-on-budget-no-public-sessions-before-74-vote/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2019 20:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS ANALYSIS In less than an hour on Tuesday (5/28/2019), the County Council reviewed the complex Fiscal 2020 budget proposed by the County Executive, with few questions, no spending cut proposals and just one advocate of raiding “fund balance” reserve accounts to lower the property tax rate by slightly over a penny—a move that would contradict the executive’s avowed pledge to avoid deficit spending. But there were indications that a majority of the Council seems satisfied with County Executive Alan McCarthy’s policy to wait until revenues are firmly in hand before allocating spending for certain projects, with the Council given authority to review and OK projects as the budget year goes on. As in past years, the Council held department-by-department meetings with county department heads to review their spending plans for the past month. But unlike past years’ end-stage budget actions when the Council considered spending cuts and votes by members during a worksession, this time Council President Bob Meffley (R-1) gaveled the session to a close without entertaining any amendments or votes. Instead, he said, Council members would talk among themselves in the next few days and the next step would be “the vote” on the final budget scheduled [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil County Animal Services Overspends Budget, Asks $140K from Reserve Funds; Choice Between Cat Kibble or Ambulance?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2019 21:53:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A CECIL TIMES Special Report NEWS ANALYSIS Cecil County’s Animal Services agency is overspending its current Fiscal 2019 budget and is asking for an infusion of $140,000 immediately, drawn from a county fiscal reserve fund that is supposed to be off-limits for current spending. In addition, the agency is seeking a 41.7 percent operating budget boost in the proposed fiscal 2020 budget and adding 2.5 full-time-equivalent workers to its payroll—the highest number of any unit of county government. The full cost of the county’s animal services program is not even reflected in its own budget, with operations and maintenance costs of its Chesapeake City facility buried in an overall county property management account and its vehicle replacement costs shifted into the countywide vehicle “fleet” account. In the new Fiscal 2020 budget, Animal Services is seeking a 41.7 percent increase in its operating budget, bringing those costs to $1,097,415. In addition, maintenance of the shelter is budgeted separately at $64,565, a 21.2 percent increase over the current budget year. The total request amounts to $1,161,980. But even before the County Council reviews the new budget, Councilors are now being asked to make a significant transfer of funds in the current fiscal [&#8230;]]]></description>
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