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		<title>Cecil County Commissioners Oust Vernon Thompson, Economic Development Chief; Smipkins Get Even for Political Independence</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 23:55:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Cecil County Commissioners voted in secret session Tuesday to oust Vernon Thompson, a former senior state economic development official, as the county’s Director of Economic Development, according to informed sources. Thompson confirmed that “I will be leaving Cecil County as of September 23 by mutual agreement with the county commissioners.” The move had been widely expected at the beginning of the year, when a new majority of the Board of Commissioners emerged after last year’s elections, but the delay in dropping the guillotine until now had led some county observers to think that Thompson might survive after all. But in recent weeks, there were signs that the new majority of the commissioners was anxious to consolidate control over the department and at least some of them wanted to exert political payback against Thompson on behalf of their state political mentors, who deemed him too independent. The ouster of Thompson was greeted with shock and sadness Tuesday by some local leaders who had worked closely with him on economic development issues. Furthermore, the sudden move was not discussed with the county’s Economic Development Commission leadership in advance. “I think it’s a gigantic loss for Cecil County,” Joyce Bowlsbey, a member [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil County Commissioners Pick Ed Cole for Last Seat on Charter Transition Panel</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 23:09:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Cecil County Commissioners Tuesday selected Ed Cole, a former county commissioner and current Orphans’ Court judge, to a seat on the new Charter government advisory panel. His selection came on a unanimous vote, after past contentious discussions on who should help guide the county’s transition to Charter government in the next two years. The Commissioners decided a week ago to create an advisory group including the three newly-elected Commissioners—Diana Broomell (R-4), Michael Dunn (R-3) and Tari Moore (R-2)—who will automatically become members of the new County Council after a county executive is elected for the first time in the 2012 election. In addition, the panel will include the county administrator, budget director, human resources director, and county Treasurer. But the Commissioners deferred a decision on who would hold the lone seat on the panel to represent the Charter Board that drafted the charter document approved overwhelmingly by voters in the November 2010 election. A three-member majority—Broomell, Dunn and Commissioners President James Mullin (R-1)—made it clear they would not accept Joyce Bowlsbey, who chaired the charter board and worked hard to educate voters about the Charter document. (See previous Cecil Times report here: https://ceciltimes.com/2011/03/cecil-county-charter-commissioners-diss-bowlsbey-seek-new-face-on-charter-panel-to-be-run-by-old-faces/ Cole served as a one-term county [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil County Charter: Commissioners Diss Bowlsbey, Seek &#8220;New Face&#8221; on Charter Panel to be Run by Old Faces</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 20:11:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Cecil County Commissioners voted Tuesday to create a Charter Government Transition advisory panel including the three newest Commissioners, several county government senior staffers, and an unnamed “new face” from the Charter Board that drafted the county charter approved by voters last November. But Commissioner Board President James Mullin (R-1) and Commissioner Diana Broomell (R-4) made it clear that they would not accept Joyce Bowlsbey&#8211; the chair of the charter board who first suggested a transition panel in January&#8211; as the lone representative of the group that wrote the document endorsed by voters, after multiple past efforts by other groups had been soundly rejected by the voters. Commissioner Michael Dunn (R-3) was largely silent during the Tuesday discussion, but last week he voiced opposition to Bowlsbey, likening her to a “fox in the hen house.” Mullin demanded that there be a “new face” from the Charter Board for the one seat on the transition panel, but he did not disclose who that “face” might be and how that “face” would be selected or if the “face” would be selected in public or private deliberations. Mullin declared that he wanted “someone that wasn’t visible in the whole process.” Under the plan [&#8230;]]]></description>
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