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		<title>Hogan Budget to Take Back $372,000 from Casino &#8216;Impact Aid&#8217; in Cecil County</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2015 19:50:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Governor Larry Hogan’s recently proposed Fiscal 2016 state budget would cut local impact aid to counties and communities where gambling casinos are located, including a $372,000 hit on Cecil County’s aid from the Hollywood Casino in Perryville. An analysis of the budget proposal by the General Assembly’s non-partisan Department of Legislative Services said that the budget proposal would re-direct over $3.8 million in Fiscal 2016 statewide from local casino impact aid to the state’s education trust fund, to which the casinos already contribute a share of their revenues. The shift in funds would enable Hogan to cut an equal amount of state general funds currently allocated to education. The aid cut would also affect the town of Perryville, which receives 35 percent of the impact aid generated by the Hollywood Casino under an agreement with the county government. So the proposed aid cut would diminish the county’s share by nearly $242,000 and the town’s share by over $130,000. The local impact aid is supposed to help counties and towns cope with costs associated with providing fire, police and emergency services as well as road improvements and other projects in the area of the casinos. In the current Fiscal 2015 budget, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil County, Perryville Net $4 Million So Far from Casino</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 23:26:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Hollywood Casino in Perryville continues to generate significant revenues for Cecil County and the Town of Perryville, including over $528,000 in local “impact aid” in May, 2011. In May, the Hollywood Casino in Perryville generated $9.6 million in overall revenues. Of that amount, the “local impact aid” share of revenues amounts to $528,354, of which Cecil County receives 65 percent and the town of Perryville receives 35 percent. So far in this fiscal year, since the casino opened last fall, the Perryville Casino has generated over $4 million in local impact aid to Cecil County and Perryville. Overall, the Perryville casino has generated a total of $73.82 million in revenues for various state accounts and programs, as well as profits to Penn National Gaming, the casino operator, since the casino opened last fall. [See State Lottery Commission report here: https://slots.mdlottery.com/maryland-casinos-generate-more-than-13-million-in-revenue-during-may/ The Cecil County Commissioners and the Town of Perryville have been fighting for months over distribution of the slots revenues and the Commissioners were scheduled to meet with town officials Monday afternoon to discuss unresolved issues. The town has complained that it has incurred costs, as yet unreimbursed, due to the presence of the casino but the county and [&#8230;]]]></description>
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