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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 Council Peanut Gallery Budget Flubs; Can-Kicking Versus Investment in Future</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 May 2017 22:54:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[COMMENTARY A majority of the Cecil County Council seems to be worrying about picking up peanuts, as it reviews the proposed Fiscal 2018 budget, while ignoring the elephants in the room: the need to invest in the county’s future and to work harder and smarter to address the local opioid drug epidemic. Some of the Council’s preliminary budget actions reflected the newbie factor of two new Council members with a lot to learn about county government and the budget process while other efforts displayed some grandstanding and gimmickry by a veteran Councilor who should, and does, know better. Some nickel-and-dime decisions, like cutting a paltry $29,100 item that would have added a part-time small business librarian to the county library system, made no sense from an investment standpoint. The lone small business librarian in the county has been publicly credited by numerous start-ups for their success, while state and national library agencies have recognized the county library for its innovative efforts despite not having added any other new staffers since 2009, even as public demand for services has skyrocketed. And a major item—the Health Department’s request for $3.2 million in county funds—didn’t get a single word from the Council. Although [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil County Council Tinkers with Moore Budget; Slight Spending Cuts, Tiny Tax Rise&#8211; Worries About Reserve Funds Raid</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2016 19:51:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Cecil County Council decided on Tuesday (6/7/16) to approve lame duck County Executive Tari Moore’s final budget with minimal spending cut tinkering&#8211; putting just $131,000 back into reserve funds that Moore has raided by over $12.4 million during her tenure. The Council went along with Moore’s proposed property tax rate for Fiscal 2017, imposing a tiny, far less than a penny boost from the current tax rate. The Council also cut spending in the Fiscal 2017 capital budget, which covers construction projects, by $6.18 million, in part by delaying some projects until the following fiscal year. Moore’s budget for the Fiscal 2017 budget year, which begins on 7/1/16, proposed a tax rate of 0.9914, a miniscule increase from the current rate of 0.9907 per $100 of property valuation. So for a home assessed for tax purposes at $200,000, the current tax bill would be $1,981.40. At the new rate, the same property’s tax bill would be $1,982.80—an increase of $1.40 per year. The new tax rate is set at the “constant yield” level—which means the rate needed to generate the same amount of property tax revenues to the county as it received in the previous budget year. Lower property [&#8230;]]]></description>
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