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		<title>Cecil County Council Strikes Out on Ethics Panel, Bond Bill and New $2.1 Million Reserve Funds Raid; Hornberger Throws Spitballs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2021 19:46:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS ANALYSIS “And it’s one, two, three strikes you’re out, at the Old Ball Game.” The Cecil County Council stepped up to the legislative plate against the Hornberger administration this week but struck out, after some verbal swings at bat, on three major issues: the secret installation of a member of the Ethics Commission after the Council had turned down her nomination; a bond bill giving the county executive unilateral fiscal powers that the Council rejected last fall; and a sudden $2.1 million raid on reserve funds for schools spending just weeks after the county executive claimed she wouldn’t raid the reserves in her new budget. On the bonds and reserve funds measures, the administration of County Executive Danielle Hornberger (but not Hornberger herself, who personally stayed far away from the fray) had the Council over a fiscal barrel by claiming the county would suffer fiscal harm if her demands were not met immediately—a loss of possible revenues from re-financing bonds at potentially lower interest rates, and an unforeseen (at least by this administration) need to come up with more money to comply with state schools funding requirements. Unlike Hornberger’s administration, county officials in Wicomico and Howard counties revised their [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil County Exec Options Two Kennels, $400K each, for County Owned Animal Shelters; Council Balks at Boosts for Buddies Extended Animal Control Contract</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2016 00:41:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A CECIL TIMES SPECIAL REPORT Cecil County Executive Tari Moore has signed options to buy two animal kennels—one a small private facility in a residential area in North East and also the much larger Cecil County SPCA shelter in Chesapeake City—at $400,000 each, but has not decided which site, or both, to buy at taxpayer expense. Also, Moore has now cut in half an earlier request for an extra $24,000 to boost an unbid, six-month contract with the current Buddy for Life animal control contractor to care for animals—after CECIL TIMES exposed a hidden loophole in her contract extension that would have put even more money in the group’s pocket despite a Council budget cut. Moore held a secret, closed door session with the County Council on Tuesday, 1/12/16 at which she outlined two shelter purchase options her administration has signed. Earlier in the day, at a public worksession of the County Council, several members criticized the administration’s unilateral six-month extension of a previous three-year contract with A Buddy for Life, Inc. for animal control and animal sheltering operations at the rented Rainwood Kennels in Elkton—and Moore’s plan to boost payments to the Buddies by $24,000 over the county budget [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil Co Exec Moore to Buy Animal Shelter, Outside Bid Process, Put County in Debt; Extends Contract with Buddies for 6 Months</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2015 23:40:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cecil County Executive Tari Moore, after a more than one hour secret meeting with the County Council on Tuesday 11/17/15, announced that she plans to buy a property for a government-owned animal shelter at an unspecified cost or location, and will unilaterally extend a contract for six months with A Buddy for Life, Inc.,&#8211; the current contractor that has been the subject of multiple complaints from citizens, former volunteers and some employees for their care of stray animals under a more than $2.24 million three-year county contract. Cecil Times waited outside the closed door meeting in Elkton with the Council and when Moore emerged, asked her a series of questions, to which she replied each time, “I’m not at liberty to say.” But moments later, her administration issued a written statement about her intentions. Then Cecil Times conducted an hour-long interview with county Director of Administration Al Wein and County Attorney Jason Allison on the ramifications of Moore’s plan to extend, and in some cases side-step, a county “Request for Proposals” (RFP) for animal control/animal sheltering services. There were many unanswered questions about the potential costs to taxpayers, quality of services to animals and, at least initially, cutting the County [&#8230;]]]></description>
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