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		<title>New Cecil County Council Attorney, Chip MacLeod, Brings Deep Experience—and Stiff Spine—to County Legal Matters</title>
		<link>https://ceciltimes.com/2021/07/new-cecil-county-council-attorney-chip-macleod-brings-deep-experience-and-stiff-spine-to-county-legal-matters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2021 20:04:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS ANALYSIS The Cecil County Council has hired Charles “Chip” MacLeod&#8211; a Chestertown lawyer with decades of experience in local government and the founder of the Clean Chesapeake Coalition that has fought for sediment cleanup at the Conowingo Dam&#8211; as the new County Council attorney. And in his first appearance at the 7/13/2021 Council worksession, MacLeod ran verbal and legal rings around the Hornberger administration’s lawyer, Lawrence Scott, an Annapolis political consultant with limited legal experience. MacLeod replaces John Downs, an Elkton lawyer, who submitted a letter of resignation in mid-June. It was an open secret that several members of the Council were unhappy with what was seen as Downs’ lukewarm representation of the Council since the onset of Danielle Hornberger’s administration as County Executive seven months ago. Hornberger’s administration has taken multiple steps that undercut the authority of the Council, especially her unilateral and secret appointment of an Ethics Commission member after the Council had refused to confirm the appointee. [SEE CECIL TIMES Special Report here: https://ceciltimes.com/2021/06/hornberger-secretly-installs-orourke-on-ethics-panel-despite-county-councils-rejection-of-her-nomination-four-months-ago-council-members-angry-at-end-run/ ] MacLeod brings broad local government and legal experience to the Council position. He was associate director of the Maryland Association of Counties (MACO) in Annapolis and served for seven years as [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil County Council Strikes Out on Ethics Panel, Bond Bill and New $2.1 Million Reserve Funds Raid; Hornberger Throws Spitballs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2021 19:46:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS ANALYSIS “And it’s one, two, three strikes you’re out, at the Old Ball Game.” The Cecil County Council stepped up to the legislative plate against the Hornberger administration this week but struck out, after some verbal swings at bat, on three major issues: the secret installation of a member of the Ethics Commission after the Council had turned down her nomination; a bond bill giving the county executive unilateral fiscal powers that the Council rejected last fall; and a sudden $2.1 million raid on reserve funds for schools spending just weeks after the county executive claimed she wouldn’t raid the reserves in her new budget. On the bonds and reserve funds measures, the administration of County Executive Danielle Hornberger (but not Hornberger herself, who personally stayed far away from the fray) had the Council over a fiscal barrel by claiming the county would suffer fiscal harm if her demands were not met immediately—a loss of possible revenues from re-financing bonds at potentially lower interest rates, and an unforeseen (at least by this administration) need to come up with more money to comply with state schools funding requirements. Unlike Hornberger’s administration, county officials in Wicomico and Howard counties revised their [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Scott, New Cecil County Attorney, Fumbles First Meeting of Hornberger’s New Ethics Panel; Clueless on Open Meetings Law, State Ethics Commission Role</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2021 22:06:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS ANALYSIS It was the first time that Lawrence Scott, an Annapolis political consultant and the new Cecil County Attorney, put in an official appearance at a public county meeting when he presided over the first session of the all-new membership of the county’s Ethics Commission on Tuesday 4/20/2021. It did not go well. First, the audio portion of the livestreamed meeting was muted for about the first fifteen minutes of the session, before an audience member was able to raise a ‘hand’ in the online format to advise that no one could hear the proceedings. When the audio was then enabled, Scott related what he said was the state of play thus far: approval of the meeting agenda, discussion of a list of members of county boards and commissions who had failed to submit a required ethics disclosure form, and a decision to send a letter to apparent violators giving them 30 days to submit the required forms. No advance agenda had been posted on the Ethics Commission website, as required by law. Scott’s recitation did not elaborate on what the rest of the actual agenda was. Scott then led a discussion about why members of the Bainbridge Development [&#8230;]]]></description>
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