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		<title>Sewage Fees: Another &#8216;Holy Crap Moment&#8217; Faces County Council; Will They Punt Again?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2018 20:19:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS ANALYSIS The three water-filled jugs placed in front of the witness table at the Cecil County Council worksession on Tuesday (7/17/2018) were a graphic show-and-tell representation of what has been described in the past as a “holy crap moment” in the long and politically torturous saga of providing and paying for adequate sewage services in the county. One jug was a murky shade of deep brown: untreated raw sewage as it flows through pipes into the county’s Seneca Point treatment plant on the Northeast River; one jug contained amber-hued water from the river itself, the same waters local residents enjoy for swimming and fishing; and the final jug contained crystal clear water discharged from the state-of-the-art treatment plant. The jugs were also a metaphor for the county’s fiscal health and the questions facing the County Council: will the county continue to take the murky waters route to bury the actual costs of providing sewage services to those who use the facilities by raiding general revenues provided by all taxpayers, including those who do not use the services? (That ‘brown jug’ option cost general fund accounts $3.2 million in Fiscal 2017.) Or will the Council choose an amber-hued middle ground, [&#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 Council Talks Trash, and Not Just Garbage</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jul 2013 00:14:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Trash-talking is often par for the course in some of the rhetoric employed by at least one member of the Cecil County Council during the panel’s meetings, and Tuesday’s worksession was no exception. But at least some of the talk by another county official will turn trash into gold. Scott Flanigan, the county’s Director of Public Works, told the Council that a new contractor had proposed paying the county for handling recycling of paper, metals, cans, etc.—instead of the current contractor’s “zero-zero” approach that takes the recyclables at no cost to the county but also doesn’t share with the county any of the money obtained from selling some of the materials. The new vendor, ReCommunity Delaware, Inc., will give the county an 18 percent share of the “value of the stream” of recycled material, Flanigan said. In addition, the company will give the county a grant of $26,000 a year to be used to promote recycling to citizens. And the firm will also handle document shredding for the county government and for community personal document shredding events at no cost to the county government. The Delaware company, a subsidiary of a national operation that has been in business for decades, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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