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		<title>Cecil CO Budget: Moore&#8217;s Last Plan Boosts Employee Pay, Limits School Spending Rise, Taxes Stable; But Reserve Funds Raided Again</title>
		<link>https://ceciltimes.com/2016/04/cecil-co-budget-moores-last-plan-boosts-employee-pay-limits-school-spending-rise-taxes-stable-but-exec-continues-reserve-funds-raid-for-spending/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Apr 2016 22:13:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS ANALYSIS In her last budget as Cecil County Executive, Tari Moore—who is not running for re-election&#8211; does more of the same: draining reserve funds, accumulated over many years by past County Commissioners to protect the county against sudden fiscal adversity, in order to pay for her current spending plans. Her latest Fiscal 2017 budget, revealed on Friday 4/1/16, draws down those reserves by another $2.58 million—bringing her four-year hit on county reserve money to at least $12.4 million. Those hits are estimated to reduce remaining “unassigned” reserves to just $2 million for the future, according to budget officials. But her final budget gives some comfort to county employees, who have complained of no or minimal cost of living pay raises or “step” pay grade boosts in recent years. Moore’s budget proposes a 5 percent pay increase for all county employees, and for law enforcement and emergency services workers covered by collective bargaining agreements, the pay and step boosts will be even higher. BUT county workers are facing sharply higher health insurance premiums, so pay boosts could be offset by higher health costs, through boosted insurance premiums or being financially forced to step down to a higher deductible or higher [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil County Budget: Moore Boosts Exec Spending, Cuts County Council $ for Advisers; Employee Health Costs Explode</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2015 22:19:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS ANALYSIS Cecil County Executive Tari Moore’s new proposed budget would boost her own office’s spending by 3.2 percent while cutting the County Council’s current budget by 4.2 percent, especially in accounts that could enable the Council to hire independent advisers to review or challenge her policies. In addition, county employees have a “Cadillac” health care program that provides such privileged benefits that the plan could face federal tax penalties in the next few years unless benefits are scaled back to more reasonable levels, according to the county’s Human Resources director. In Moore’s new Fiscal 2016 budget proposal, county employee health costs are projected to rise 31.6 percent. [CORRECTION: County Director of Administration Al Wein advised Cecil Times that the County Executive does not receive health care benefits. Our initial report said she was entitled to those benefits, while County Councilors were barred from benefits. Wein says both legislative and executive branch elected officials do not get benefits.] In her budget plan, Moore cut 4.2 percent from the County Council’s proposed operating budget, focusing her cuts on areas, such as professional consulting services, that might enable the Council to challenge her policies or receive independent advice on key issues affecting [&#8230;]]]></description>
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