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		<title>Cecil County Wants 20 Properties Added to Enterprise Zones for Econ Development; Council Frets Over Elkton Southside Project</title>
		<link>https://ceciltimes.com/2019/09/cecil-county-wants-20-properties-added-to-enterprise-zones-for-econ-development-council-frets-over-elkton-southside-project/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Sep 2019 23:18:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cecil County Economic Development officials are asking the County Council to approve a list of 20 properties to be added to Enterprise Zones, which receive property tax breaks and other incentives to promote new business opportunities. But some County Council members worried that citizen objections to the proposed mixed-use Southside/Southfields development should be addressed first. Sandra Edwards, county economic development manager, told the County Council on Tuesday (9/2/2019) that the new roster of properties proposed for addition to the Enterprise Zone list is facing a 10/15/2019 deadline for submission to the state and for that reason the County Council is being asked to grant “expedited” status to the request, holding a public hearing on 10/1/2019 and a vote on the legislation the same night. That didn’t sit well with Council President Bob Meffley (R-1), who said, “My phone’s been blowing up” with citizen objections to the Southside project, a mixed use development including industrial, retail and residential components on a 650-acre tract, between Pulaski Highway/Route 40 and Frenchtown Road, within the town limits of Elkton. The $700 million project is expected to include a sports park, about 1,000 single family homes and apartments, and 250 acres set aside for industrial [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil County Council OK&#8217;s $140K for Animal Overspending, Questions Cat Overload; Another Ordinance Ordeal Looms?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2019 23:36:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS ANALYSIS The Cecil County Council has approved a $140,000 budget boost in the current fiscal year to cover overspending by the county’s Animal Services agency, despite questions about a massive intake of cats under a policy that is not consistent with county or state laws. And new calls for review of county animal law raise the specter of a re-play of a previous three-year bitter fight over the current law that featured fierce opposition by cat advocates to any regulations of owned cats or feral cat colonies. On a unanimous 5-0 vote in Elkton on Tuesday (5/7/2019), the County Council approved the budget amendment to transfer funds in the current fiscal year, drawn from budget “reserve” fund accounts that are supposed to be off-limits to routine spending. The Animal Services overspending was signaled, at a lower level of nearly $67,000, in the county’s budget estimates report for the second quarter of the current Fiscal 2019 budget year in a report to the Council issued in early February. But that early warning was not flagged for the Council at the time and members indicated they felt blindsided by the new $140,000 budget amendment thrown at them a few weeks ago. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>McCarthy Proposes Property, Income Tax Increases in First &#8216;Balanced&#8217; Cecil County Budget in Decades; More $ for Cops, Library but Nicks School Budget</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2017 21:59:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cecil County Executive Alan McCarthy has proposed his first budget that breaks with years of deficit-financed spending policies in the county but takes the politically risky road of raising property and income taxes to pay for county services. Property taxes would rise by $100 a year for a home valued at $200,000, while local income tax rates would rise from 2.8 percent to 3 percent. McCarthy’s budget is a landmark fiscal blueprint in recent county budget history, clearly setting out the costs of services that county citizens have demanded—for schools, libraries and public safety—and asks county residents if they are willing to put their money where their mouths are. Unlike the past four budgets advanced by his predecessor, Tari Moore&#8211;which relied on substantial drains on reserve funds accumulated over many years as safeguards against fiscal and weather emergencies&#8211; McCarthy’s budget is fully funded by actual revenues expected in the Fiscal 2018 budget year, which begins 7/1/2017. “This is my budget,” McCarthy said in announcing his proposals on Friday (3/31/2017.) “I will take full responsibility, be you like it or like it not.” McCarthy was sworn into office in December, 2016. County budget officials calculate that the “unassigned fund balance” reserve [&#8230;]]]></description>
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