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		<title>Cecil County Budget: All Over But the Shouting; $415K in Spending Cuts Won&#8217;t Block Tax Boosts</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2017 17:04:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s all over but the shouting on Cecil County’s Fiscal 2018 proposed budget, after the County Council made its last round of budget decisions on Thursday and added back $49,100 in funds the panel had previously cut. The Council is set to formally adopt the budget next week at its 6/6/2017 evening meeting, at which there will no doubt be a fair amount of political rhetoric and at least one vote against the budget. But County Council President Joyce Bowlsbey (R-2) extracted a promise from Council members that there would be no last-minute surprises at that session and members would stick by the decisions they had made in two lengthy worksessions on the budget. “I’d like things to run smoothly,” she said. The Council’s decisions amount to less than half-a penny on the property tax rate, and Bowlsbey said after the final worksession that she had also obtained assurances from a majority of the Council that the money derived from the spending cuts would be allocated to the county’s depleted emergency reserve funds—the “unassigned fund balance”&#8211;rather than taking off a miniscule fraction from the property tax rate. The county’s current property tax rate is 0.9914 per $100 of assessed property [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil County Budget: Health Dept. Asks $3 Million, Hotel Tax Delayed; Now Heavy Lifting Begins</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 May 2017 22:12:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After weeks of listening to department heads defend and explain their budget proposals, the Cecil County Council will hear from citizens next week and then the heavy lifting begins: deciding whether to accept, or cut, County Executive Alan McCarthy’s proposed Fiscal 2018 budget that would boost property tax rates and raise income taxes. Many local residents have already weighed in during public comment sessions at Council meetings, with schools advocates and teachers urging support for the education budget while a local anti-tax group has launched an automated email campaign to oppose the budget’s tax boosts. McCarthy’s budget would raise the property tax rate by 5-cents while raising the income tax rate from 2.8 percent to 3 percent. But the new budget proposal would be fully financed by annual revenues, for the first time in many years, and would not raid a “fund balance” safety-net account that was nearly wiped out by deficit-spending during his predecessor’s four-year term. In the final round of budget hearings before the County Council on 5/16/2017, the Health Department budget, and its key role in combatting the illegal drug epidemic and overdose deaths, was reviewed. The Cecil County Health Department is actually a state agency, staffed [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil County Sheriff Pitches 3.5% Budget Boost; 3 New Deputies, Programs to Combat Drugs, Crime</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 May 2017 22:33:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In what has become a sad annual ritual, Cecil County Sheriff Scott Adams pleaded with the County Council this week on behalf of his office’s budget while wearing a mourning band around his badge in honor of a Delaware state trooper murdered a few days ago just a short distance over the Cecil County line. Last year, local deputies were mourning the murder of two deputies in adjacent Harford County, as Adams urged local budget support for his agency.* But Adams said during his Tuesday (5/2/2017) appearance before the County Council that it was “not the time to be sad,” but instead to renew commitments to serving the public. He said he was “grateful” to County Executive Alan McCarthy for authorizing a budget proposal that would increase the number of deputies slightly and approve pay boosts and salary modifications that could help address a longstanding problem: recruiting and retaining officers both for law enforcement and running the county detention center. Escalating numbers of violent acts against law enforcement officers nationwide, as well as the murder of a corrections officer in Delaware recently, make it that much harder to recruit and keep qualified officers, Adams said. Adams is asking the County [&#8230;]]]></description>
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