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		<title>Cecil County Charter: Commissioners Diss Bowlsbey, Seek &#8220;New Face&#8221; on Charter Panel to be Run by Old Faces</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 20:11:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Cecil County Commissioners voted Tuesday to create a Charter Government Transition advisory panel including the three newest Commissioners, several county government senior staffers, and an unnamed “new face” from the Charter Board that drafted the county charter approved by voters last November. But Commissioner Board President James Mullin (R-1) and Commissioner Diana Broomell (R-4) made it clear that they would not accept Joyce Bowlsbey&#8211; the chair of the charter board who first suggested a transition panel in January&#8211; as the lone representative of the group that wrote the document endorsed by voters, after multiple past efforts by other groups had been soundly rejected by the voters. Commissioner Michael Dunn (R-3) was largely silent during the Tuesday discussion, but last week he voiced opposition to Bowlsbey, likening her to a “fox in the hen house.” Mullin demanded that there be a “new face” from the Charter Board for the one seat on the transition panel, but he did not disclose who that “face” might be and how that “face” would be selected or if the “face” would be selected in public or private deliberations. Mullin declared that he wanted “someone that wasn’t visible in the whole process.” Under the plan [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil County to Lose State Jail Aid; Higher Costs to County But Some Commish Want More Budget Cuts</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 22:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cecil County is about to lose key state funds to support part of its jail operations, leaving open the prospect that the county could be forced to pick up about $1 million a year in operating costs for the facility. Part of the problem was disclosed Tuesday during a work session of the Cecil County Commissioners, at which there was a brief discussion of an exchange of letters involving the state Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services and the county Sheriff’s Department, which operates the jail. A letter from the state warned that the current Fiscal Year 2011 state budget only allocated $714,480 to support prisoners assigned to the Community Adult Rehabilitation Center (CARC) program at the Cecil County jail and funds were rapidly running out, with the expectation that no more state aid would be available to the county in the next few months. Furthermore, the letter&#8211; signed by Ernest Eley, Jr., deputy director of special programs for the Division of Parole and Probation—warned that there would be no further state money forthcoming in the future. The fiscal warning from the state comes at a time when some County Commissioners are proposing budget cuts of $3.2 million for [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil County Commish Split on Pipkin Teacher Pensions Bill; &#8220;Patriots&#8221; Protest Pipkin Mandate</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 23:10:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The evolving political split among the Cecil County Commissioners came into play Tuesday when two commissioners tried to get the Board go on record against proposed state legislation, sponsored by state Sen. E.J. Pipkin (R-36), to transfer some financial responsibility for teacher pensions from the state to the counties. But a three-member majority of the all-Republican board refused to speak out against the Pipkin legislation. At the same time, members of the Cecil County Patriots—the local “tea party” organization that has often been at odds with the political machine led by Pipkin and his ally, Del. Michael D. Smigiel (R-36)—announced plans to testify and protest against the Pipkin pension bill at a hearing in Annapolis on Wednesday 3/2/11. For the second consecutive year, Pipkin has proposed legislation that would transfer responsibility for local teachers’ pensions from the state to local counties. But this year’s version (SB629) includes some mitigating language that would only transfer pension obligations to the counties insofar as the costs are above the median for the state. Pipkin has maintained that his newest proposal would not harm Eastern Shore counties in his district but would force more urbanized counties, such as Montgomery County, to pick up the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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