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		<title>Cecil County Budget: Commissioners Spread Pain/  Cecil Times Special Report</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Cecil County Commissioners have drafted a Fiscal 2012 budget that would cut county public schools by $1.2 million, slash 4 percent off the county libraries’ budget, slice 3 percent from Cecil College funds, and force the county Sheriff’s office to absorb over $700,000 in lost state aid for work-release prisoners at the jail. In interviews with The Cecil Times, participants in the closed-door discussions Tuesday and Wednesday, as well as representatives of county departments affected by the budget cuts, described the process and the impact the proposals would have on county services. In general, the Commissioners decided to “nick” most programs and departments to spread out the “pain” of a difficult budget year. But some departments, especially the county public schools, feel they got “nicked” more than others proportionately, despite proposing frugal budgets to the Commissioners. The Commissioners had to bridge a roughly $9 million gap between revenues and proposed expenditures, with their discussions predicated upon a resolve to keep the property tax rate at the “constant yield” level to avoid tax increases. The commissioners held to that pledge, by cutting about $8 million from spending and tapping $1 million from county reserve funds, sources said. But due to [&#8230;]]]></description>
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