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		<title>Cecil County Schools Get Windfall from State Kirwan Aid, Boosting Budget Over Demands for County $; Library Touts Citizen Support</title>
		<link>https://ceciltimes.com/2019/04/cecil-county-schools-get-windfall-from-state-kirwan-aid-boosting-budget-over-demands-for-county-library-touts-citizen-support/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2019 21:58:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cecil County Public Schools (CCPS) will get about a $4.8 million windfall from new state aid, designed to be a “downpayment” on new educational improvement initiatives recommended by the state Kirwan Commission, in its new Fiscal 2020 budget—undercutting school advocates’ claims that students would suffer because the County Executive did not give schools everything they wanted. Dr. Jeff Lawson, the CCPS superintendent, appeared before a budget worksession of the Cecil County Council on Tuesday (4/9/2019) to explain his budget. He presented budget summary sheets that did not account for the new Kirwan aid and when he discussed numbers, he quickly mentioned that he was “not counting Kirwan.” It was not until Councilor William Coutz (R-2) specifically asked him about how much Kirwan aid would be pumped into the new CCPS budget that Lawson acknowledged a figure of “about $4.1 million.” In fact, the updated “fiscal policy note” on the legislation—enacted last week&#8211; calculates Cecil County’s share of Kirwan-related special aid at $4.8 million in Fiscal 2020 and estimates the same amount for Fiscal 2021. The aid includes $1,624,000 for special education; $1,553,000 for teachers’ salaries; $441,000 for transitional support instruction; $83,000 for a mental health services coordinator; $498,000 to aid [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>New Cecil County Budget Freezes Property, Income Tax Rates; Boosts Schools by $2.4 Million</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2019 21:45:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cecil County Executive Alan McCarthy unveiled his new Fiscal 2020 budget plan on Friday (3/29/2019), freezing property and income tax rates at current levels and boosting school spending by $2.44 million, or 3.6 percent above the state-mandated local aid for the schools. The budget, McCarthy’s third since taking office, continues his stated policy of refusing to tap into emergency and fiscal cushion reserve funds and enacting “pay as you go” budgets that balance expenditures with available revenues each year. In addition, new fiscal regulations initiated by McCarthy and approved recently by the County Council will make it harder for any future county executive to turn back the clock to the “deficit spending” of his predecessor as county executive and past County Commissioner boards. The budget proposes no new major initiatives but continues and expands projects launched in previous budgets, including a third artificial turf high school athletic field (North East); continued development of the Calvert regional park, including expanded parking areas; construction of the new North East library; and development of a new Chesapeake City elementary school. But the budget also provides for hiring two new assistant state’s attorneys, beginning next January, to help prosecute the rising caseload of drug-related [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>GOP Names Harford County Farmer, Jason Gallion, for Norman&#8217;s State Senate Seat on Primary Ballot</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2018 23:07:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jason Gallion, a Harford County farmer and a former two-time candidate for the House of Delegates, has been named by Republicans in the two-counties of Senate District 35 to run unopposed on the GOP primary election ballot in June. His name would replace that of incumbent Sen. Wayne Norman, who died suddenly on Sunday. While Cecil and Harford county residents were still in a state of shock at the sudden loss of the jovial and well-liked Norman, the state Board of Elections rules provided that Monday (3/5/2018) was the last day for a party central committee to replace a candidate who had already filed or to fill a vacant slot for the June 26 primary ballot. On Monday, the state elections website listed, in bold red typeface, the death of Sen. Norman and also listed the selection of Gallion by his party central committees for a place on the ballot. District 35 covers northeastern Harford County and sections of western Cecil County. Gallion is already known in the Cecil County portion of the district from his previous 2014 run for delegate and he placed first in the Cecil County vote tally in a three-way race, but he came up short [&#8230;]]]></description>
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