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		<title>Cecil Co Charter Changes on Ballot Aim to Fix County Exec Issues; State Question Would Close Kevin Hornberger Residency Loophole</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2022 20:37:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS ANALYSIS As in-person early voting in the General Election began on Thursday (10/27/2022), Cecil County voters will decide five local Charter amendments, including changes in selection of Ethics Commission members and requiring greater “transparency” on spending and real estate deals by the County Executive. The proposals are designed to address problems that emerged in the first two years of Danielle Hornberger’s administration. In addition, a proposed amendment to the State Constitution (Question 2) would require a state Delegate or Senator to “maintain” residency withing the boundaries of the district from which he/she was elected. Delegate Kevin Hornberger, Danielle’s husband, lived outside the boundaries of his former District 35-A, according to state land records, financial disclosure statements and sworn mortgage refinancing documents. He got away with using his parents’ address for years because no one challenged his residency within the limited less than two-week window for challenges to the State Board of Elections after a candidate files for office. Currently, the state Constitution only specifies a requirement for district residency at the time of filing but is silent on maintaining residency after an election and for the duration of the four-year Delegate term. A ‘yes’ vote on this state question [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil County Council OKs Hornberger Budget, I95 Toll Study Dropped; Library, Pension Cuts Accepted&#8211; Soda, Anyone?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2021 23:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS ANALYSIS Call it the once-a-month soda budget: you’ll be able to treat yourself to an occasional large Coke at the drive-through under the slightly over a penny cut in property tax rates set in the new Fiscal 2022 budget proposed by County Executive Danielle Hornberger and approved by the Cecil County Council Tuesday night. (6/1/2021). But there won’t be COLAs of the financial sort for library employees and cuts to first responders pension fund contributions may have those dedicated professionals reaching for aspirin instead of a cold drink. In her budget for the fiscal year that begins on 7/1/2021, Hornberger sets the property tax rate at $1.0279 or slightly over a penny. (about 0.0135-cents) decrease from the current Fiscal 2021 rate of $1.0414, per $100 of assessed property valuation. So for a home assessed at a full value of $200,000, the property tax bill sent out this summer will be $26.94 less than last year’s annual bill. For a home with an assessed property value of $300,000, the new tax bill will yield a savings of $40.50—so add a mini-burger off the dollar menu to that monthly Coke. But for homeowners in the western area of the county whose [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Hornberger Hires Annapolis GOP Political Consultants for Key Cecil County Jobs, Despite Little Relevant Experience</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2020 00:43:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS ANALYSIS New Cecil County Executive Danielle Hornberger may have gotten her political dream team when she installed two Annapolis Republican political consultants as members of her administration: a consultant who specializes in financial disclosures required of political campaigns to become county finance director and a prominent lobbyist and campaign consultant, who has no record of ever handling a court case, as the county attorney. But what county taxpayers will get in return for the six-figure salaries they will likely be paying for each of them is less clear. While they lack relevant local government and legal experience. they bring in strong Republican political ties to Annapolis power brokers, especially State GOP chairman Dirk Haire, who aided the Hornberger campaign with polling in the party primary here and represented her in court when her campaign financial disclosures and other documents were challenged by outgoing County Executive Alan McCarthy, who lost overwhelmingly to her in the GOP primary. The appointments of the two Annapolis consultants, along with several other new department heads named by Hornberger, were rushed through the County Council Tuesday evening (12/8/2020) less than 24 hours after council members first learned their names and received resumes&#8211; and about an [&#8230;]]]></description>
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