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		<title>Cecil County Council Tinkers with Moore Budget; Slight Spending Cuts, Tiny Tax Rise&#8211; Worries About Reserve Funds Raid</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2016 19:51:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Cecil County Council decided on Tuesday (6/7/16) to approve lame duck County Executive Tari Moore’s final budget with minimal spending cut tinkering&#8211; putting just $131,000 back into reserve funds that Moore has raided by over $12.4 million during her tenure. The Council went along with Moore’s proposed property tax rate for Fiscal 2017, imposing a tiny, far less than a penny boost from the current tax rate. The Council also cut spending in the Fiscal 2017 capital budget, which covers construction projects, by $6.18 million, in part by delaying some projects until the following fiscal year. Moore’s budget for the Fiscal 2017 budget year, which begins on 7/1/16, proposed a tax rate of 0.9914, a miniscule increase from the current rate of 0.9907 per $100 of property valuation. So for a home assessed for tax purposes at $200,000, the current tax bill would be $1,981.40. At the new rate, the same property’s tax bill would be $1,982.80—an increase of $1.40 per year. The new tax rate is set at the “constant yield” level—which means the rate needed to generate the same amount of property tax revenues to the county as it received in the previous budget year. Lower property [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil County Roads Mostly Clear, County Council Divided on Snow Response; South County Shines</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2016 23:46:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cecil County suffered a record or near record snowfall last weekend and county roads crews and contractors toiled around the clock to clear hundreds of miles of roadways and bridges, but the County Council was divided Tuesday on just how good a job was done and whether social media should have been used more extensively to advise the public on snow-clearing progress. But in southern Cecil County—often referred to by some Elkton-based government officials as “the middle of nowhere”—even remote rural county roads in Earleville were cleared to two full lanes and down to the pavement by mid-day Monday. That response was the best in more than 20 years, with lesser snow accumulations in the past, according to some long-time residents. County Director of Public Works Scott Flanigan took the hot seat to explain to a County Council worksession Tuesday morning the actions of DPW employees and contractors who plowed county roads during the recent snow emergency. “Given the magnitude of the event” and “the major drifting problems,” he said, the DPW staff and contractors rose to the challenge. He noted that just “72 hours after the last snowflakes fell” DPW and its contractors had plowed all major county roadways [&#8230;]]]></description>
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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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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2015 21:07:23 +0000</pubDate>
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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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