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		<title>New $ for First Responders: Cecil Co. Gives $164K to Serve New Biz; Port Gets $407K Federal Aid</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Cecil County and federal aid for volunteer fire and ambulance services will boost funds for key first responders in the county, including a major federal grant for breathing apparatus for the Water Witch fire company in Port Deposit and new county funds for all local volunteer first responders to compensate for expanded demand for services from the many new businesses locating in the county. The Water Witch Volunteer Fire Company, which traces its roots in service to the western county area to the late 1880’s, recently obtained one of the largest federal grants given in Maryland to fire companies under the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) special grants program for local fire and ambulance services. Statewide, the program is providing over $2 million in aid to local fire services under a recently enacted federal appropriations bill, according to an announcement by Maryland’s US Senators Chris Van Hollen and Benjamin Cardin. The local Water Witch aid will be used for firefighters’ breathing apparatus, to purchase 48 complete sets of turn-out gear and spare oxygen bottles and to replace the fire company’s air cylinder/compressor machinery that is used for refilling oxygen tanks. The local volunteer fire company garnered more aid than [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil County Drafts $169 Million Budget; Schools Get &#8220;Flat&#8221; Funds; Property Tax Rate at &#8220;Constant Yield&#8221;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Cecil County Commissioners have drafted a $169 million proposed budget for Fiscal 2013 that would freeze public schools funds at the current level, give a 1 percent cost-of-living raise to county employees and set property taxes at the “constant yield” rate. But since overall revenues from income taxes and property taxes paid to the county are down due to the recession and lower property values, it will take a slight increase in the property tax rate to yield the same, or “constant,” level of money coming into county coffers. As a result, county officials said, the county property tax rate will rise slightly, from .9401 cents per $100 of assessed property value to .9957 cents in the new budget year, which begins July 1. The proposed budget also taps reserve funds for $3 million to provide over half of a $5.9 million increase in county spending in the new budget year. But $2.4 million of that figure is actually a contingency plan for the anticipated state shift of teacher pension costs to the county. The draft budget proposal was hammered out in several closed door sessions of the County Commissioners over the past few weeks. Those sessions were much [&#8230;]]]></description>
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