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		<title>Broomell Disses State Transit Visitors at Cecil County Council; Another Black Eye for County&#8217;s Image, Decorum</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2014 16:55:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A team of state transit officials trekked to Elkton Tuesday to meet, yet again, with Cecil County officials about a proposed MARC train maintenance yard that would bring 90 jobs to the county and tie in to future plans to extend the commuter train line to Elkton—but before the visitors barely opened their mouths, County Councilor Diana Broomell (R-4) was hurling insults. Diane Ratcliff, director of the planning office of the Maryland Transit Administration, brought along a detailed PowerPoint presentation to illustrate her remarks, and Broomell complained she should have been given a copy of it in advance. Ratcliff then announced that a planned “open house” community meeting to discuss the project had been postponed from June until the fall, due to delays in federal transit officials’ reviews of the plan—setting off Broomell to claim the delay was intentional. “This is all playing into your hands,” Broomell declared. “You’re having back door meetings…back room dealing and pushing through a project.” “She is our guest here,” said Councilor Alan McCarthy (R-1) “Listen to her.” “Let’s listen to what they have to say,” added Council President Robert Hodge (R-5). “We haven’t heard anything yet.” “This is outrageous,” Broomell retorted. When the rhetoric [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil County Council: Potty Mouths, Potty Breaks, Port-a-Potties; Decorum Degenerates, Hodge Biz Plans Get Cold Shoulders</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2013 23:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Schwerzler]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Cecil County Council, which has spent much of its ten months of existence arguing over how members should behave, dissolved into yet another verbal slugfest Tuesday over how to enforce standards of “decorum”—and an unusual split among the current panel majority over a plan by Council President Robert Hodge (R-5) to help local businesses to get a piece of the financial action on local government contracts. At the Council’s Tuesday morning worksession, a revised version of previously proposed steps to enforce standards of proper behavior among members of the County Council was denounced by Councilor Alan McCarthy (R-1) as “watered down to the point of being useless.” His objections were to proposed revisions, drafted by Councilor Diana Broomell (R-4), that emphasized sanctions that should be imposed on members of the audience at Council meetings, rather than provisions previously proposed that mirrored the standard “Roberts Rules of Order” that empower the presiding officer—usually, the Council President—to impose order and gavel offending Councilors to silence, an apology, or in the extreme, banishment from a meeting. So McCarthy made a motion to simply scrap detailed and escalating levels of sanctions and instead use the Roberts Rules provisions that would empower the presiding [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil County Council: Good News, No News and the Bad News Bears</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Sep 2013 20:13:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Cecil County Council had some good news from the county library, no news from the county’s finance director and some Bad News Bears&#8211; growling about how to deal with misbehaving councilors&#8211; at a Tuesday worksession in Elkton. First the good news: the Cecil County public library has produced a video highlighting the “beauty” of the county and its attractions to start-up businesses, focusing on the owners of a very successful entrepreneurial business—Operative Experience, Inc.&#8211; that was incubated through the library’s small business development program. Denise Davis, the library director, told the Council that the owners of the company have long credited the library with helping the start-up business to launch and grow into a successful venture. So she decided to interview the owners about their experiences and why they decided to locate the operation in Cecil County. That resulted in a video, including still shots of the natural “beauty” of the county and commentary on the business benefits of the county’s location close to urban centers, as well as a local workforce providing “intelligent” and “solid” employees. Working with the county’s economic development office, the video—titled “Beautiful Cecil County: Your Business Belongs”&#8211; will be used in a marketing campaign [&#8230;]]]></description>
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