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		<title>Cecil County Budget: Council Cuts $822,000, Falls Short of Some Great Expectations, Gimmicks</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Cecil County Council took a stab at cutting the Fiscal 2018 budget on Tuesday (5/30/2017) and came up far short of a grandiose plan advanced by two members seeking to cut over $6 million from the budget proposed by County Executive Alan McCarthy. Cecil College and Cecil County Public Schools (CCPS) survived multiple proposed significant budget hits but the county library system did not fare as well. And regional Republican political concerns surfaced in a decision to fire former state Del. David Rudolph, a Democrat, from a $30,000 part-time consulting position in the County Executive’s office to work on getting more aid for the county from state agencies. The veteran delegate was defeated in the 2014 election by political newcomer Kevin Hornberger, a Republican who has already filed for re-election in the 2018 election. (Hornberger and other members of the area’s all-Republican state legislative delegation vehemently objected, for political reasons, to McCarthy’s hiring of the Democrat Rudolph earlier this year, sources said.) Many of the proposed spending “cuts” would have come from postponing infrastructure, equipment purchases or staffing for another year; shifting short-term construction work such as basic road repairs out of current spending into long-term bond accounts that [&#8230;]]]></description>
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