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		<title>Cecil County Animal Services Overspends Budget, Asks $140K from Reserve Funds; Choice Between Cat Kibble or Ambulance?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2019 21:53:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A CECIL TIMES Special Report NEWS ANALYSIS Cecil County’s Animal Services agency is overspending its current Fiscal 2019 budget and is asking for an infusion of $140,000 immediately, drawn from a county fiscal reserve fund that is supposed to be off-limits for current spending. In addition, the agency is seeking a 41.7 percent operating budget boost in the proposed fiscal 2020 budget and adding 2.5 full-time-equivalent workers to its payroll—the highest number of any unit of county government. The full cost of the county’s animal services program is not even reflected in its own budget, with operations and maintenance costs of its Chesapeake City facility buried in an overall county property management account and its vehicle replacement costs shifted into the countywide vehicle “fleet” account. In the new Fiscal 2020 budget, Animal Services is seeking a 41.7 percent increase in its operating budget, bringing those costs to $1,097,415. In addition, maintenance of the shelter is budgeted separately at $64,565, a 21.2 percent increase over the current budget year. The total request amounts to $1,161,980. But even before the County Council reviews the new budget, Councilors are now being asked to make a significant transfer of funds in the current fiscal [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>New Cecil County Budget Freezes Property, Income Tax Rates; Boosts School $, Sewer Fees</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2018 19:24:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cecil County Executive Alan McCarthy unveiled his new Fiscal 2019 budget plan on Friday (3/30/2018), freezing property and income tax rates at current levels, boosting school spending slightly, and calling for a major increase in sewage treatment fees in order to balance the wastewater fund. The budget now goes to the County Council, which cannot increase spending but can make spending cuts or reduce proposed fees. The most controversial proposal in McCarthy’s budget will likely be a major boost in sewage fees, steps that the Council and its predecessor County Commissioners have resisted for years. That resistance persisted even as public works officials warned that costs, especially for state-mandated environmental upgrades, exceeded the revenues from fees paid by users of the services. In unveiling his budget, McCarthy said that despite an improving local economy, with the recent addition of over 1,500 jobs and major new employers such as Amazon, TruAir, Fortress Steel and the forthcoming Lidl warehouse operation, the county is still feeling lingering effects of the sluggish state economy. The local unemployment rate is down, he said, but still higher than the state average. There was “a total lack of economic growth in Cecil County” when he came into [&#8230;]]]></description>
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