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		<title>Cecil County Council Fires Shot Across Budget Bow at County Exec On $1.4 Million Extra Spending</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2015 23:51:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Members of the Cecil County Council fired shots across the budget bow on Tuesday, warning the County Executive that they expect stronger cost-cutting steps in her new budget to prevent a recurrence of more than $1.4 million in over-budget expenses this year. At issue before the council members at a worksession in Elkton was the request by County Executive Tari Moore for approval of a budget amendment to account for overspending in multiple accounts during the current budget year. County finance officials have been drafting the budget amendment for about a month, with shifting numbers from preliminary versions previously discussed with the council. But details of the proposal submitted to the council this week show extra expenses in multiple categories, including higher utility costs, failure by the State’s Attorney’s office to account for a new prosecutor’s salary, snow removal and especially spiraling repair costs for dump trucks and other vehicles serving the Department of Public Works (DPW). “They really have to do a better job of saving taxpayer dollars,” Councilor Dan Schneckenburger (R-3) said of the county administration. “We’ve got to get a better grip on it.” Schneckenburger asked Winston Robinson, the county’s Director of Finance, “what did the county [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Hogan Budget to Take Back $372,000 from Casino &#8216;Impact Aid&#8217; in Cecil County</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2015 19:50:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Governor Larry Hogan’s recently proposed Fiscal 2016 state budget would cut local impact aid to counties and communities where gambling casinos are located, including a $372,000 hit on Cecil County’s aid from the Hollywood Casino in Perryville. An analysis of the budget proposal by the General Assembly’s non-partisan Department of Legislative Services said that the budget proposal would re-direct over $3.8 million in Fiscal 2016 statewide from local casino impact aid to the state’s education trust fund, to which the casinos already contribute a share of their revenues. The shift in funds would enable Hogan to cut an equal amount of state general funds currently allocated to education. The aid cut would also affect the town of Perryville, which receives 35 percent of the impact aid generated by the Hollywood Casino under an agreement with the county government. So the proposed aid cut would diminish the county’s share by nearly $242,000 and the town’s share by over $130,000. The local impact aid is supposed to help counties and towns cope with costs associated with providing fire, police and emergency services as well as road improvements and other projects in the area of the casinos. In the current Fiscal 2015 budget, [&#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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