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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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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Sep 2019 22:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
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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 Must Require Fire Sprinklers in New Single-family Homes; Hot Button Issue Returns</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2015 22:09:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A local hot-button issue—mandatory fire sprinklers in newly built single-family homes—is back before the Cecil County Council, but this time the county will be unable to opt-out of sprinkler regulations that the old Board of Commissioners reversed over three years ago. As a result, there could be a rush to obtain building permits for new construction before the projected effective date of 8/18/15 for the new regulations, county officials agreed. That could mean a boost of at least proposed new single-family home construction, after a lackluster, minimal 2014 pace of new single-family home construction in the county. Pat Conway, director of permits and inspections for the county, told the County Council on Tuesday that a new building code must be adopted this year under state regulations and that the new county code must comply with changes made in the statewide code since the county last adopted its own regulations. “It’s state law,” that all newly constructed single family homes must be equipped with fire-suppression sprinkler systems, Conway said. Currently, the county only requires townhouses and multi-family apartments to have sprinklers—after the previous board of County Commissioners reversed a previous board’s decision in 2010 to require sprinklers for single-family homes. It [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil County Council Backs Most of County Exec&#8217;s Budget; Rejects Cuts to Cops, Schools, EMS&#8211; But Some Sewer Fees Uncertain</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 20:32:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Cecil County Council voted late Thursday afternoon to support most of County Executive Tari Moore’s Fiscal 2014 budget proposal, repeatedly rejecting proposals by Councilors Diana Broomell (R-4) and Michael Dunn to (R-3) to slash money for county public schools, public safety and infrastructure projects. The votes showed the intentions of the majority of the Council on a wide range of budget issues but are not yet final or binding. The Council must adopt a county budget in a formal legislative session on Tuesday 5/21/13, and some of the amendments voted down on Thursday could be presented again. But on most points, the intent of the majority was clear and few if any changes are expected. But there was still one major issue left open: how to ease the impact of a proposed huge boost in “major facility fees” for sewage services—the charges assessed to new business customers seeking to hook-up to the county’s sewage treatment plants. The fees are currently set at $10,000 per unit (some businesses require many ‘units’ to meet their needs) but Moore proposed boosting the fee to $16,100. Pending a solution on how to phase-in the big increases, the Council indicated it would not endorse [&#8230;]]]></description>
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