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		<title>Hornberger Budget Cuts Property Tax Rate Slightly, Keeps Income Tax Boost; $1 Extra for Schools, Cuts Library Operations</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2021 15:16:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS ANALYSIS Cecil County Executive Danielle Hornberger submitted her first budget to the County Council on 4/1/2021, proposing about a 1-cent cut in the property tax rate while keeping income tax rates at the level set by her predecessor, Alan McCarthy. She also slashed operating funds for county libraries and bestowed the hefty sum of $1 above a state-required county aid level for public schools in order to avoid losing substantial state education aid. At the same time, there were substantial pay raise costs for two of her newly appointed department heads whose Republican Party and Annapolis political credentials far exceed their local government experience. The capital budget, which covers various construction projects that are supposed to have at least ten years of useful life, includes several surprise expenditures for projects that had been cast aside in the past for legal or practical/longevity reasons. The capital budget expenditures do not “count” in calculations for the property tax rate, the bell-weather of local politics, but the costs still must be paid over long-term bond expenses. In her 2020 political campaign, Hornberger pledged to “rollback the tax increases” enacted under the four-year administration of McCarthy, whom she defeated in the Republican primary. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Earthquake Rattles Cecil County Commissioners; County Building Evacuated</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 22:09:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It took an act of God—an earthquake—to silence the Cecil County Commissioners Tuesday, as the quake shook chairs and made the county office building sway while the local lawmakers were meeting to discuss broadband/Internet issues. Commissioners, county employees and citizens all evacuated the building for about a half hour as county workers checked the building for possible damage. Richard Brooks, the county’s director of emergency services, was in the commissioners’ meeting room when the quake hit shortly before 2 p.m. He jumped up from his seat, saying, “This is not good,” before rushing out of the room to head down the street to the county’s emergency command post. Then a county employee rushed into the meeting room to announce, “We’re evacuating the building” and commissioners and others then walked the short distance to the main door of the building to wait outside for further instructions. County Administrator Al Wein was subsequently whisked away in an emergency services vehicle to visit the command post to obtain first-hand information on the situation. After returning to the county administration building, Wein said the earthquake, based in Mineral, VA, registered a 5.9 on the Richter scale of severity. The Cecil County health department building [&#8230;]]]></description>
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