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		<title>Cecil County DPW Chief Hits Two Multi-Million $ Homers, One Small Strike on Cost Savings to Taxpayers</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not so long ago, Mike Flanagan was a star pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles, scoring multiple wins for the home team. In Cecil County, more recently a similarly-named batter employed by the county government hit some home runs out of the park in savings to local taxpayers. But even the best hitters sometimes get a strike, and the Cecil County Council was full of praise on Tuesday for the homers but quick to complain about a small strike. Scott Flanigan, Cecil County’s Director of Public Works, told the Cecil County Council at its 11/3/2015 worksession that his department will save up to $6 million on projected costs for a state and federally-mandated environmental upgrade to the North East/Seneca Point wastewater (sewage) treatment plant, a project that is now about 80 percent completed. In addition, Flanigan and his staff re-worked engineering designs on a needed upgrade to the failing Port Deposit sewage treatment facility—which is now owned by the county—to provide increased capacity and save about $1.2 million over cost estimates made just last month. The County Council, not usually inclined to offer words of endearment to county employees, gushed with praise for Flanigan and his staff for watch-dogging the costly [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil County Commish Will Not Cut per Pupil School Funds, but Protest State Pension Cost Shift to County</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cecil County Commissioners will provide at least the same level of per pupil schools spending in the upcoming county budget as provided this year, Commissioner Diana Broomell (R-4) said Tuesday, even if the state passes on some of the costs of teacher pensions to the county. During last year’s budget deliberations, Broomell advocated “keeping the option open” of asking the state for a waiver of the so-called “maintenance of effort” rules that require a county to provide at least the same level of per pupil funding as in the previous year. But county budget officials pointed out that Cecil County’s economic situation was not so dire that the state would consider a waiver and eventually the commissioners agreed to abide by the maintenance of effort requirement. In response to a Cecil Times question, Broomell said that the commissioners have “collectively agreed we will not be seeking a waiver” for the Fiscal 2013 budget. She noted the costs of school maintenance, repairs and other costs will require adequate funds in the new budget. (However, since school enrollment is calculated at 111 fewer students than in the current budget year, the ‘maintenance of effort’ level will be $485,000 less in county funds [&#8230;]]]></description>
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