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		<title>North East High Scores Budget Touchdown Against Cecil County Commish</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2012 18:52:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Schwerzler]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A concerted campaign by parents, teachers and students at North East High School scored a touchdown Tuesday when the Cecil County Commissioners threw in the flag on a contested play and agreed to pay for new metal bleachers to replaced rickety, splintery wooden seats at the school’s athletic field. After hearing from a long line of parents, current and former students and the school’s band director, the Commissioners onTuesday agreed unanimously to allow cost-savings by the county school system on other projects to be applied to the bleachers replacement. Commissioner Diana Broomell (R-4), who previously indicated reluctance to go along with the project, said she had been misunderstood and had been lobbied recently on the matter by her brother, whose child attends the school. The commissioners had previously killed a request by the county’s public schools to replace the bleachers—the last wooden athletic stands in the county—as part of the Fiscal 2013 capital improvement budget. (Multiple construction projects were put on hold as part of the Commissioners’ budget-cutting efforts that resulted in a “happy meal” property tax cut of a half-cent on the tax rate, providing most homeowners the equivalent of a fast-food lunch on their annual tax bill.) But [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil County Schools Save $1.6 Million on Construction; Ask to Put Savings to Projects Cut by Commish</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2012 23:53:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cecil County public schools cracked the cost-cutting whip and saved $1.6 million on several school construction and renovation projects already approved and financed by county bonds. So now the schools want to apply a portion of those cost savings to two projects put on hold by the County Commissioners in the recently approved county budget. Appearing before the Commissioners at a Tuesday worksession, Dr. D’Ette Devine, the schools superintendent, and Tom Kappra, the chief financial officer for the schools, explained that close supervision of construction and renovation projects at the Calvert, Leeds and Thomson Estates schools saved nearly $1.65 million from the projected costs of the construction and renovation projects. “It’s very rare that we have construction that comes in under budget,” commented Commissioner Tari Moore (R-2). “I think it’s only fair that those savings be rolled over” to other county schools projects, she added. The schools would like to apply $900,000 of the savings to begin planning for reconstruction of the aging Perryville elementary school, a long delayed project that the Commissioners pulled out of the capital improvement budget for Fiscal 2013 they recently adopted. The proposed allocation is half what the schools had asked for in Fiscal 2013 [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Citizens Weigh in on Cecil County Budget; Urge School, Ambulance Funds</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 01:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cecil County’s proposed budget drew mostly polite comments and gratitude from representatives of programs that were frozen but not cut in the new Fiscal 2013 budget but some supporters of the public schools and county emergency services workers forcefully disagreed with Commissioners’ priorities. The Cecil County Commissioners drafted a $169 million proposed budget for Fiscal 2013 that would freeze public schools funds at the current level, give a 1 percent cost-of-living raise to county employees and keep property taxes at the “constant yield” rate. However, since overall revenues are down due to the recession and declining property values, just to bring in the same amount of revenues as this year, the property tax rate will increase by five-cents, from .9401 cents per $100 of assessed property value to .9957 cents in the new budget year, which begins July 1. The proposed budget also taps reserve funds for $3 million to provide over half of a $5.9 million increase in county spending in the new budget year. But over $2.4 million of that figure is actually a contingency plan for the anticipated state shift of teacher pension costs to the county. Dr. D’Ette Devine, the county Superintendent of Schools, told county [&#8230;]]]></description>
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