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		<title>Water Park Resort Planned in Perryville; New Era in Cecil County Economic Development</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2018 01:32:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS ANALYSIS A new $200 milllion water park and resort, planned for Perryville near the existing Hollywood Casino, could mark a new era in Cecil County economic development—with a potential ripple effect to attract other new amenities to the western area of the county and revive past development dreams that were dashed by the last recession. Great Wolf Lodge, which operates 18 resorts with the nearest location in the Pocono mountains in Pennsylvania, is expected to build a hotel with at least 450 rooms, a conference center, restaurants and shops. Those facilities would be centered around its water park, climbing wall and other recreational amenities. The project will be located adjacent to the casino in the long vacant “Chesapeake Overlook” site on about 44 acres in Perryville. Another adjacent 55 acres of open land could become attractive to other developers looking to piggyback on the waterpark’s lure to visitors. Cecil County officials announced the project, which is expected to open by summer, 2022, at a Tuesday morning (12/18/2018) worksession of the County Council but rumors of such a project have been circulating in local government and real estate circles for months. The project is expected to create from 400 to [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil County Budget: All Over But the Shouting; $415K in Spending Cuts Won&#8217;t Block Tax Boosts</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2017 17:04:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Schwerzler]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s all over but the shouting on Cecil County’s Fiscal 2018 proposed budget, after the County Council made its last round of budget decisions on Thursday and added back $49,100 in funds the panel had previously cut. The Council is set to formally adopt the budget next week at its 6/6/2017 evening meeting, at which there will no doubt be a fair amount of political rhetoric and at least one vote against the budget. But County Council President Joyce Bowlsbey (R-2) extracted a promise from Council members that there would be no last-minute surprises at that session and members would stick by the decisions they had made in two lengthy worksessions on the budget. “I’d like things to run smoothly,” she said. The Council’s decisions amount to less than half-a penny on the property tax rate, and Bowlsbey said after the final worksession that she had also obtained assurances from a majority of the Council that the money derived from the spending cuts would be allocated to the county’s depleted emergency reserve funds—the “unassigned fund balance”&#8211;rather than taking off a miniscule fraction from the property tax rate. The county’s current property tax rate is 0.9914 per $100 of assessed property [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil County Council Peanut Gallery Budget Flubs; Can-Kicking Versus Investment in Future</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 May 2017 22:54:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[COMMENTARY A majority of the Cecil County Council seems to be worrying about picking up peanuts, as it reviews the proposed Fiscal 2018 budget, while ignoring the elephants in the room: the need to invest in the county’s future and to work harder and smarter to address the local opioid drug epidemic. Some of the Council’s preliminary budget actions reflected the newbie factor of two new Council members with a lot to learn about county government and the budget process while other efforts displayed some grandstanding and gimmickry by a veteran Councilor who should, and does, know better. Some nickel-and-dime decisions, like cutting a paltry $29,100 item that would have added a part-time small business librarian to the county library system, made no sense from an investment standpoint. The lone small business librarian in the county has been publicly credited by numerous start-ups for their success, while state and national library agencies have recognized the county library for its innovative efforts despite not having added any other new staffers since 2009, even as public demand for services has skyrocketed. And a major item—the Health Department’s request for $3.2 million in county funds—didn’t get a single word from the Council. Although [&#8230;]]]></description>
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