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		<title>Hornberger Uses Cecil County Website to Smear Councilors with Fake “De-funding” Cops Claim; Documents Show $ to Co Exec Pals</title>
		<link>https://ceciltimes.com/2022/03/hornberger-disinformation-takes-over-cecil-county-website-to-smear-councilors-with-fake-de-funding-cops-claim-documents-show-to-co-exec-pals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2022 20:02:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS ANALYSIS Cecil County Executive Danielle Hornberger (R) staged a partisan coup on the official county government website and Facebook page on Wednesday (3/17/2022) to falsely accuse two County Council members of voting to “de-fund” local police&#8211; when in fact they were simply seeking to delay a vote until they could get more information on how she is financing over $2.8 million in pay boosts for certain county employees, none of whom are Sheriff’s deputies. In addition, documents obtained by CECIL TIMES show that some of the highest pay boosts in the county would go to Hornberger’s own “executive administration” staff—which includes Lawrence Scott, the county attorney and longtime Annapolis GOP political consultant who has become the de-facto political muscle of the Hornberger administration. Scott could become the highest paid county employee under the pay plan. Hornberger began implementing the pay boosts last November, even before they were formally presented this month to the County Council, which by law must approve spending changes to the county budget. Other documents obtained by Cecil Times also show that her administration implemented major changes in the county’s pay classification system in the past few months, including creation of a new category “G” that [&#8230;]]]></description>
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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>Smoke and Snooker, Promises and Placeholders: Will the Real Cecil County Budget Please Stand Up?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2021 22:34:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS ANALYSIS Cecil County Executive Danielle Hornberger’s proposed Fiscal 2022 budget, which will go before local residents at a public hearing on Thursday (5/20/2021), has become an ever changing list of promises and wishes—and a challenge to the County Council to figure out what is real or imagined. In addition, budget worksessions before the County Council disclosed this week that the Board of Elections (BOE) was significantly underfunded in the proposed budget, which covers the next fiscal year in which the BOE will have to implement costly new procedures under legislation passed this year by the General Assembly to expand early voting locations and absentee ballot distribution and processing in 2022. And the county health department also received a cut in county financial support. But witnesses said they had been assured by Hornberger’s administration that their agencies would get unspecified additional funds later in the year via budget amendments and the proposed budget amounted to placeholders for later actions. Where Hornberger would get the money for additional spending was unclear nor was there a timetable for such action or estimates of how much additional money might be available. No local budget is ever written in stone and budget amendments throughout [&#8230;]]]></description>
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