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		<title>Cecil County Council Ponders Charter Changes; Moves to Clarify, Re-Balance Powers in Local Government</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2022 00:39:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS ANALYSIS The Cecil County Council, after a year of often being cut out of local government decision-making by the County Executive, is considering a series of amendments to the county Charter that would clarify the Council’s role and spell out procedures for filling vacancies, membership on the Ethics Commission and decisions on major expenditures, including purchase/leasing/sale of real estate. If the Council approves Charter amendment proposals, they would have to be submitted to county voters for approval, or rejection, on the November general election ballot. Some of the proposals were direct responses to recent events, including several Councilors’ concerns that they were not being given full or transparent accountings of county budget spending and possible real estate purchases. In a recent closed-door session and an open worksession on Tuesday 2/8/2022, the Council considered eight proposals and reached preliminary agreement on four, with another subject to further discussions, while three were dropped. The two most significant provisions dealt with the fiscal powers of the Council versus the executive, with one measure endorsed by the Council and another turned down on a 3-2 vote. The Council is scheduled to discuss the Charter issues again at its next worksession on 2/15/2022. The [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>New Cecil County Budget Freezes Property, Income Tax Rates; Boosts School $, Sewer Fees</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2018 19:24:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cecil County Executive Alan McCarthy unveiled his new Fiscal 2019 budget plan on Friday (3/30/2018), freezing property and income tax rates at current levels, boosting school spending slightly, and calling for a major increase in sewage treatment fees in order to balance the wastewater fund. The budget now goes to the County Council, which cannot increase spending but can make spending cuts or reduce proposed fees. The most controversial proposal in McCarthy’s budget will likely be a major boost in sewage fees, steps that the Council and its predecessor County Commissioners have resisted for years. That resistance persisted even as public works officials warned that costs, especially for state-mandated environmental upgrades, exceeded the revenues from fees paid by users of the services. In unveiling his budget, McCarthy said that despite an improving local economy, with the recent addition of over 1,500 jobs and major new employers such as Amazon, TruAir, Fortress Steel and the forthcoming Lidl warehouse operation, the county is still feeling lingering effects of the sluggish state economy. The local unemployment rate is down, he said, but still higher than the state average. There was “a total lack of economic growth in Cecil County” when he came into [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil County Sheriff Dept. Goes to Dogs: K9 Officers to Join Force, Patrol Schools</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Feb 2014 18:33:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cecil County’s Sheriff’s Department is bringing on two new four-pawed recruits this spring, training K9 dogs to detect illegal drugs in schools and also serve broader law enforcement duties in the county—at no expense to taxpayers. In an interview with Cecil Times, Sheriff Barry Janney said that he has been working for months on a plan to use money seized from convicted drug dealers to expand his agency’s tools to combat drugs. Discussions have been going on since last summer, especially after Gov. Martin O’Malley met with county officials to address the serious problem of drug overdose deaths in Cecil County, he said. After discussions with County Executive Tari Moore, Janney said he went ahead and retained a consultant to explore the costs, training needs and capabilities of adding canines to the force. A plan was developed to purchase two specially-bred police dogs, recruit two current deputies to be their partners, and put them through an expected six-month training period before the unit will be operational probably by late this summer. “It’s very costly,” Janney said of the process. But he said the program will use $25,000 in money seized from drug dealers to acquire the dogs and pay for [&#8230;]]]></description>
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