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		<title>Cecil County Budget Panel: Layoffs &#8216;Last Resort;&#8217; Review Public Safety</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 23:06:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Schwerzler]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A citizens’ budget advisory panel told the Cecil County Commissioners Tuesday that employee layoffs or furloughs should only be a “last resort,” public schools should be funded at a compromise level and rising public safety spending needs “further scrutiny.” It took weeks of political wrangling by the Cecil County Commissioners to name the five-member panel (see previous Cecil Times report here: https://ceciltimes.com/2011/02/cecil-commissioners-name-budget-advisors-mullin-picks-smipkin-pac-donor/ But once appointed, the citizens’ group got down to business quickly and produced its recommendations without any hint of partisanship. James Butkiewicz spoke on behalf of the panel, telling the Commissioners at a Tuesday worksession that the group worked well together and “Nobody came in with an agenda” and “Everybody had an open mind.” The panel cited public safety as the fastest-growing major cost area for the county and amounting to a “growing share of the budget,” Butkiewicz told the Commissioners. In the report, the group said it reviewed revenues and expenditures from 2001-2010 and found that public safety spending rose from 13.9 percent of county spending in 2001 to 18.4 percent of expenditures in 2010. “Clearly this area of expenditures deserves further scrutiny,” the report said, adding that this category was growing faster than the growth in [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil County Commissioners Name Budget Panel; Mullin Picks Smipkin PAC Donor</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 23:39:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After weeks of discussion and hand-wringing, the Cecil County Board of Commissioners finally named a five-member budget advisory panel Tuesday, with some Commissioners picking people with impressive credentials while Board President James Mullin (R-1st) picked a major donor to his political allies’ Political Action Committee. The Commissioners have been discussing appointment of a budget advisory panel for weeks and a majority had decided that each of the five Commissioners would name one person to the group, which would not have any legal powers or authority but would simply advise the Commissioners on possible budget cuts. Commissioners Robert Hodge (R-5) and Diana Broomell (R-4) announced choices with impressive budget and economics experience. Hodge selected James Butkiewicz, who is a professor of economics at the University of Delaware and a former chairman of the Cecil County Economic Development Commission. He is a resident of the northern Elkton area. Broomell selected Gary Benjamin, of Conowingo, who has been a cost and budget analyst for over 25 years at the Edgewood Arsenal/Aberdeen Proving Ground military facility in Harford County. He also owns a tree farm in Cecil County. Commissioner Tari Moore (R-2) selected Bill Johnson, of North East, who is retired from a long [&#8230;]]]></description>
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