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		<title>Back to School Time for Cecil County Council; Meffley Goes to Head of the Class</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2018 22:08:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Schwerzler]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS ANALYSIS It was a bit like the first day of school when the new Cecil County Council met this week for its first worksession with two new members and, at least for a few minutes, no teacher in charge of the classroom. There was also a nearby hall monitor, trying to lay down some different groundrules for the new school term. But the students quickly put themselves in charge. Meeting on 12/4/2018 for the first time after the November general election, the Cecil County Council unanimously selected Bob Meffley (R-1) as President of the five-member le gislative body and fended off a bid by the county executive to rein in council members’ roles on outside organizations’ boards. It probably won’t be the last time there’s some friction between the new Council and the executive’s office. Meffley, a two-year veteran of the Council, had declared his intention to seek the panel’s presidency, to replace the retiring Joyce Bowlsbey, early last month. A new member, Bill Coutz (R-2), who won election to Bowlsbey’s seat on the Council, was also interested in the post and cited his leadership experience in business and various non-profit boards. From the outset, Meffley had the strong [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecilton Fire Company Seeks Modernization, but Cecil County Budget Advisors Could Snag Plan</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 23:39:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Schwerzler]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Cecilton volunteer fire company is seeking Cecil County support for a modernized approach to fire-fighting—selling off a fairly new fire engine and a very old one and instead buying a new ladder truck to meet southern county needs—but a new report by a budget advisory panel could scuttle the proposal. Robert Plato, who became the new Cecilton fire chief last year, outlined his plans at a Cecil County Commissioners’ worksession Tuesday as part of a broader initiative to modernize emergency services in the county’s southernmost town, which also serves a sprawling rural area east and west of the town. “I’m trying to upgrade Cecilton so nobody gets killed,” Plato said. Cecilton is at the top of the countywide volunteer fire association’s priority list for replacement of an aging 1991 fire engine currently in service. But Plato said he wants to sell off that antiquated engine, as well as a much newer, six-year old fire engine that does not meet local needs, and instead acquire a new ladder truck that would best serve the local community as well as other areas. The fire company is willing to go into debt or raise community funds, at no extra cost to county [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil County Ambulances: County Asked to Takeover Some Services; Volunteer Fire Companies Object</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Schwerzler]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cecil County’s Emergency Services director asked the County Commissioners Tuesday to shift some basic ambulance services away from volunteer fire companies to county employees, at a gross cost of over $5 million over a four year period. But the volunteers say they can provide the same services at a much lower cost to taxpayers. The proposal, which some volunteer fire/emergency companies say could spell a death knell for their community-based operations, comes during an election year. The county’s fire companies, and their members and supporters in local communities, represent a potent voting block. Richard Brooks, the county’s director of Emergency Services, proposed the hiring of a staff of 28 county employees, stationed at three areas in the county, and county government purchase of three new “basic” ambulances to address problems with response times to calls for emergency medical services. Brooks claimed that his agency could take over the services at no net increased cost to taxpayers because his department could begin, for the first time under state law, to collect fees from patients transported in existing county “advanced” paramedic ambulances, as well as in the new “basic” ambulances. He presented a spreadsheet to commissioners that did not tally total costs [&#8230;]]]></description>
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