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		<title>Slates, Slams and $: Gregory Promotes Pals for Cecil County Council; “Slate” Flyers Push Lies, Paid for by Developers, Hornberger</title>
		<link>https://ceciltimes.com/2022/07/slates-slams-and-gregory-promotes-pals-for-cecil-county-council-slate-flyers-push-false-claims-paid-for-by-developers-hornberger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jul 2022 21:19:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS ANALYSIS Jackie Gregory (R-5), the vice president of the Cecil County Council, must have an acute case of insomnia, posting social media attacks on some of her fellow councilors and perceived political foes at all hours of the night. And when the sun comes up, she stars in glossy promotional mailers declaring she has a “need” for her preferred “slate” of candidates to sit with her on the Council. What she isn’t saying is that the “Cecil Conservative Slate” of political newcomer candidates she is promoting is largely financed by out-of-county developers and financial transfers from Del. Kevin Hornberger (R-35B), a large donor to her own campaigns and the spouse of county executive Danielle Hornberger (R), a close ally of Gregory. And she isn’t saying why her “slate” is particularly focused on attacking Councilor Al Miller (R-3), who is up for re-election this year, with flyers attacking him personally with false claims. One flyer shows pictures of her three preferred candidates but inexplicably declares that Miller is “our opponent.” The official Republican primary election ballot lists only one candidate running against Miller: Bob Gatchel, an actor who appeared in drag wearing female clothing and a bouffant red wig in [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>(UPDATED) Meffley’s Budget Guts Win $ for School Security, Other Councilors Cluck Like Backyard Chickens; Exec&#8217;s Pals Get Pay Boosts</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2022 23:37:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS ANALYSIS The horror of the Texas school shooting had not yet reached national network newscasts when the Cecil County Council convened Tuesday (5/24/2022) to consider County Executive Danielle Hornberger’s proposed Fiscal 2023 budget. Four members were unwilling to offer any amendments or changes to the budget but Council President Bob Meffley (R-1) had a small surprise up his sleeve: a deal he cut hours before with Hornberger to provide $240,000 to county schools “small capital projects” outside the regular budget framework in a supplemental spending proposal to be submitted to the Council later in the year. That amount is the precise figure needed to construct a secure vestibule at one county school. But it still leaves multiple county school buildings without the security upgrades deemed necessary by school facilities experts. Hornberger refused to fund any secure vestibule upgrades sought last year and her new budget only provides for one. But funding and timing uncertainties on the budgeted vestibule project and the promise made to Meffley mean that the two projects won’t be built until next summer, according to CCPS officials. It didn’t have to be that way. The state Comptroller announced in late March that Cecil County was getting [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Hornberger Admin Killed Longstanding Pay “Parity” in Cops Contract, Deputies Barred from Sharing in 6% Mid-Year Windfall Given Favored Few</title>
		<link>https://ceciltimes.com/2022/04/hornberger-admin-killed-longstanding-pay-parity-in-cops-contract-deputies-barred-from-sharing-in-6-mid-year-windfall-given-favored-few-cecil-county-council-questions-budget-gimmick/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2022 19:44:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS ANALYSIS The Hornberger administration demanded removal of a longstanding provision of Cecil County Sheriff’s Deputies’ union contracts that assured cops of receiving equal pay boosts given to other county workers, while the administration was secretly drafting new payscales and a plan to boost pay for other workers by 6 percent, or double the Deputies’ contract pay raise this year, documents show. As a result, Deputies represented by the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) lost their past pay protections and were frozen out of much higher pay hikes given recently to other, non-union county employees who do not risk their lives to protect citizens. Meanwhile, the Cecil County Council got its first look at County Executive Danielle Hornberger’s proposed Fiscal 2023 budget at a 4/5/2022 worksession, and several Councilors challenged Hornberger’s proposal to convene a “Blue Ribbon Commission” to study police and emergency workers compensation and make recommendations for the future—but no hard cash even as the Sheriff’s Office faces crushing losses of deputies and corrections officers due to higher pay scales and bonuses offered by other area police agencies. In addition, some council members and an independent consultant advising the County Council questioned the budget’s unusual format that hid [&#8230;]]]></description>
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