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		<title>Faux Turf Fields Vs. Grass: Budget Plan Costs More and Shifts Expenses out of Cecil Co Schools Budget; Fiscal, Safety Questions</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS ANALYSIS A proposal to spend $1 million for an artificial turf playing field in Perryville in the county executive’s Fiscal 2018 budget raises questions about costs, safety and policy issues on pushing expenses out of school accounts into county parks liabilities. In other words, is fake grass greener than the real thing? The Perryville project is just the tip of the astroturf, the first in a long-range plan to build artificial turf fields at four other county high schools, under the Parks and Recreation budget instead of the Cecil County Public Schools (CCPS) budget. Overall, the plan would spend over $5 million in the next few years and remove responsibility for the costs and maintenance of school playing fields from CCPS, thus freeing up room in the schools’ budget for other projects. The CCPS budget is often a target of county spending critics, while the parks budget is usually less of a political bullseye. And the decision to calculate the useful life of the artificial turf fields as being from “10 to 12 years” skirts an issue that plagued CCPS budget deliberations before the County Council two years ago when school tennis court repairs were deemed as lasting slightly [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil County Budget: Current Budget Year on Fiscal Track Despite Drop in Income Tax Revenue; Water/Sewer Funds Still Lag Behind Costs</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the Cecil County Council begins deliberations on the county’s budget for the upcoming fiscal year, county finance officials told the Council that despite the still lagging economy the county’s general budget funds are expected to end the current fiscal year just $25,000 off target. But the county’s so-called “enterprise funds”—such as water and sewage treatment accounts that are supposed to be self-supporting by fees paid by users of the services—are still costing more than they bring in from user fees. As a result, those funds are incurring IOUs to the county’s general funds that are supposed to only support countywide services to all taxpayers. County Director of Finance Winston Robinson told the Council on Tuesday that although revenues from the state’s pass-through of the county’s share of income tax revenues is about $1 million off previous projections, increased revenues from other sources have offset much of the slack. “I feel happy and thrilled,” Robinson said, that his department’s projections were so close to the mark. Cecil County’s unemployment rate is still higher than the state average, and job growth here is often stymied by the lack of infrastructure that attracts new businesses to other nearby areas. The income tax [&#8230;]]]></description>
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