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		<title>Cecil County Council Strikes Out on Ethics Panel, Bond Bill and New $2.1 Million Reserve Funds Raid; Hornberger Throws Spitballs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2021 19:46:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS ANALYSIS “And it’s one, two, three strikes you’re out, at the Old Ball Game.” The Cecil County Council stepped up to the legislative plate against the Hornberger administration this week but struck out, after some verbal swings at bat, on three major issues: the secret installation of a member of the Ethics Commission after the Council had turned down her nomination; a bond bill giving the county executive unilateral fiscal powers that the Council rejected last fall; and a sudden $2.1 million raid on reserve funds for schools spending just weeks after the county executive claimed she wouldn’t raid the reserves in her new budget. On the bonds and reserve funds measures, the administration of County Executive Danielle Hornberger (but not Hornberger herself, who personally stayed far away from the fray) had the Council over a fiscal barrel by claiming the county would suffer fiscal harm if her demands were not met immediately—a loss of possible revenues from re-financing bonds at potentially lower interest rates, and an unforeseen (at least by this administration) need to come up with more money to comply with state schools funding requirements. Unlike Hornberger’s administration, county officials in Wicomico and Howard counties revised their [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Theater Review: Curtain Falls on Cecil County Council Impasse; Moore to Pick Successor, Sends &#8216;Tier&#8217; Map to State</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2012 15:28:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[News Analysis It was almost like watching the Elkton version of “Sunset Boulevard” &#8212; the classic movie in which forgotten silent film star Norma Desmond pathetically declares, “Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my close-up”&#8211; when the new Cecil County Council held its last formal session of the year Tuesday. Deadlocked again, the Council abdicated its role in filling a vacant District 2 seat and as a result, new County Executive Tari Moore will get to pick her own successor on the Council. Moore also stepped into the breech of a previous deadlock, when she was still a member of the old board of County Commissioners, over selection of a land preservation map mandated by the state. So she took action administratively to send to Annapolis a less-restrictive “tier” map (Map 10) that only includes lands already in preservation, such as parkland or farms that owners have voluntarily enrolled in farmland protection programs. If the county had not submitted its own map by 12/31/12, the state could have imposed a much more restrictive map on county land. “This map protects the property rights of our landowners, as well as the property rights of those with development currently going through the approval [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil County Commish Accept &#8220;Buddy&#8221; Group for Animal Control; Cecil SPCA Files Lawsuit to Block Contract, Re-open Bids</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 01:31:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Cecil County Commissioners agreed Tuesday to accept a review panel’s recommendation to declare A Buddy for Life, a Delaware volunteer group, as qualified to provide animal control services to the county government and proceed with final contract negotiations. But the Cecil County SPCA filed a lawsuit seeking to block award of a contract to the Buddy group and to re-open the bidding process. Even as the county sought to proceed with steps to give county money to the Buddy group&#8211; which has no shelter of its own, no employees and no track record of providing animal control services&#8211; basic information and details about the venture and its principals were still shrouded in secrecy Tuesday. County Commissioner Robert Hodge (R-5), who raised the only questions about the Buddy group during the commissioners’ worksession, asked for a copy of a “business plan” that the group was asked to submit to the county. After the meeting, County Administrator Al Wein refused to disclose that plan to the press and said he would “explain” to Hodge why even he could not have a copy. However, it was learned independently that the Buddy group is trying to obtain zoning variances to put an animal [&#8230;]]]></description>
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