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		<title>Cecil County Budget: Another &#8216;Happy Meal&#8221; Property Tax Cut Trims Half-Cent Off Rate</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Cecil County Commissioners Tuesday adopted operating and capital improvement budgets that will give property owners their second consecutive “Happy Meal” tax cut— yielding savings of about the cost of a family’s fast-food meal—while delaying many construction projects. But unlike last year’s contentious budget process, this year the County Commissioners were unanimous in their support of the Fiscal 2013 budget plans, and several members praised their colleagues for the civil tone and collegial attitude that Commissioners displayed in this year’s budget process. And unlike last year’s budget—which hit the county public schools hard and siphoned teacher and staff support funds from the schools’ operating budget for a last minute half-cent cut in the property tax rate&#8211; this time around the overall county capital (construction) budget took the hit, by delaying projects and the costs that would have been paid out in Fiscal 2013, which begins 7/1/12. As a result, the county will knock off a half-cent from the “constant yield” property tax rate—defined as the amount of property tax revenues needed to equal those of the previous budget year—that the Commissioners had earlier proposed and put out to a public hearing two weeks ago. The final action on Tuesday, approved [&#8230;]]]></description>
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