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		<title>Cecil County Council OKs New Budget; Political Tunes Counter Fiscal Harmony</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2019 01:07:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS ANALYSIS “I don&#8217;t care too much for money/Money can&#8217;t buy me love.”&#8211;The Beatles The Cecil County Council voted Tuesday evening (6/4/2019) to approve County Executive Alan McCarthy’s proposed Fiscal 2020 budget, but not before some grandstanding and the political equivalent of tapping on a calculator with dead batteries. Sometimes, even if the numbers don’t add up, singing about money can be a serenade for election year love. By a vote of 4-1, the County Council approved the executive’s budget for the fiscal year beginning 7/1/2019, which freezes the county property tax rate at the same rate that has been in effect for the past two years. The budget also provides a substantial spending boost for county schools, which receive the largest overall spending allocation from county taxpayers. County Councilor Jackie Gregory (R-5) voted against the operating budget, the capital budget, and legislation to formalize the property tax rate. She did not offer any specific spending cut amendments to the budget at the evening session, just as she failed to do in previous worksessions on the budget, and instead cited President Trump and Governor Hogan as her inspirations. Gregory has filed for re-election to her Council seat and has expressed [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil County Budget: All Over But the Shouting; $415K in Spending Cuts Won&#8217;t Block Tax Boosts</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2017 17:04:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s all over but the shouting on Cecil County’s Fiscal 2018 proposed budget, after the County Council made its last round of budget decisions on Thursday and added back $49,100 in funds the panel had previously cut. The Council is set to formally adopt the budget next week at its 6/6/2017 evening meeting, at which there will no doubt be a fair amount of political rhetoric and at least one vote against the budget. But County Council President Joyce Bowlsbey (R-2) extracted a promise from Council members that there would be no last-minute surprises at that session and members would stick by the decisions they had made in two lengthy worksessions on the budget. “I’d like things to run smoothly,” she said. The Council’s decisions amount to less than half-a penny on the property tax rate, and Bowlsbey said after the final worksession that she had also obtained assurances from a majority of the Council that the money derived from the spending cuts would be allocated to the county’s depleted emergency reserve funds—the “unassigned fund balance”&#8211;rather than taking off a miniscule fraction from the property tax rate. The county’s current property tax rate is 0.9914 per $100 of assessed property [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil County Budget: Council Cuts $822,000, Falls Short of Some Great Expectations, Gimmicks</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 May 2017 23:39:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Cecil County Council took a stab at cutting the Fiscal 2018 budget on Tuesday (5/30/2017) and came up far short of a grandiose plan advanced by two members seeking to cut over $6 million from the budget proposed by County Executive Alan McCarthy. Cecil College and Cecil County Public Schools (CCPS) survived multiple proposed significant budget hits but the county library system did not fare as well. And regional Republican political concerns surfaced in a decision to fire former state Del. David Rudolph, a Democrat, from a $30,000 part-time consulting position in the County Executive’s office to work on getting more aid for the county from state agencies. The veteran delegate was defeated in the 2014 election by political newcomer Kevin Hornberger, a Republican who has already filed for re-election in the 2018 election. (Hornberger and other members of the area’s all-Republican state legislative delegation vehemently objected, for political reasons, to McCarthy’s hiring of the Democrat Rudolph earlier this year, sources said.) Many of the proposed spending “cuts” would have come from postponing infrastructure, equipment purchases or staffing for another year; shifting short-term construction work such as basic road repairs out of current spending into long-term bond accounts that [&#8230;]]]></description>
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