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		<title>Cecil Co Exec Hornberger Budget Gives Penny Property Tax Cut, State Minimum to Schools; Deputies Get “Blue Ribbon” but No ‘Green’ Pay</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2022 23:45:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS ANALYSIS Cecil County Executive Danielle Hornberger (R) submitted her proposed Fiscal 2023 budget to the County Council on 4/1/2022, providing a penny cut on the property tax rate, the minimum state-required aid level for county schools and Cecil College, and a “Blue Ribbon Commission” to look at law enforcement pay scales—but no extra pay beyond their current bare bones union contract. The one indication that Hornberger may have begun listening to upset county residents was her attempt to make up in part for her Fiscal 2022 assault on the county public libraries, which suffered the deepest cuts of any agency in the current budget. That policy forced major cutbacks in public services&#8211; while also making library staff the only county employees to receive no cost of living pay raises this budget year. While other county employees received 1.5 percent COLAs last summer and up to an additional 6 percent in the past few months, library workers would belatedly get a 6 percent COLA effective 7/1/2022—but they would still be behind other county workers who will get another 1.5 percent COLA in July on top of their FY22 pay boosts. The County Council begins its review of the budget on [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil County Budget Obstacles: No Pay Raises, Tax Freeze &#8212; Landfill Deficit Awaits Action</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2015 20:07:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS ANALYSIS The script for a citizens’ “town hall” meeting this week on the upcoming Fiscal 2016 Cecil County budget was much the same as similar sessions in the past: the majority of speakers advocated for public schools and library spending and predict dire consequences if these popular programs do not get what their leaders want. But the fiscal realities of the new budget should bring a dose of reality and lower expectations, both for citizens and the county government itself. Cecil County Executive Tari Moore hosted the session 1/13/15 and tried to sound some warnings about the fiscal situation. “We have less revenue to work with,” she said, citing recent state aid cuts approved by the Board of Public Works affecting the current Fiscal 2015 county budget. And with the new Gov. Larry Hogan having to find hundreds of millions of dollars in additional spending cuts to balance his own upcoming budget, Cecil County will no doubt face more cutbacks in state assistance. Nevertheless, Moore pledged to develop “the most responsible budget I can.” But deep in the charts and graphs in a fiscal report prepared by the county’s Finance Department, and that agency’s recent evaluation of the Fiscal [&#8230;]]]></description>
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