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		<title>Cecil County Council Punts, So Far, on Budget; No Public Sessions Before 6/4 Vote</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2019 20:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS ANALYSIS In less than an hour on Tuesday (5/28/2019), the County Council reviewed the complex Fiscal 2020 budget proposed by the County Executive, with few questions, no spending cut proposals and just one advocate of raiding “fund balance” reserve accounts to lower the property tax rate by slightly over a penny—a move that would contradict the executive’s avowed pledge to avoid deficit spending. But there were indications that a majority of the Council seems satisfied with County Executive Alan McCarthy’s policy to wait until revenues are firmly in hand before allocating spending for certain projects, with the Council given authority to review and OK projects as the budget year goes on. As in past years, the Council held department-by-department meetings with county department heads to review their spending plans for the past month. But unlike past years’ end-stage budget actions when the Council considered spending cuts and votes by members during a worksession, this time Council President Bob Meffley (R-1) gaveled the session to a close without entertaining any amendments or votes. Instead, he said, Council members would talk among themselves in the next few days and the next step would be “the vote” on the final budget scheduled [&#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>CECIL TIMES SPECIAL REPORT: County Budget Bleaker Than Rosy Report to County Council; New Executive Faces Fiscal Challenges</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2016 22:27:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A CECIL TIMES SPECIAL REPORT NEWS ANALYSIS Cecil County’s fiscal picture looked rosier than expected recently as county finance officials presented a detailed accounting of the recently completed budget year and projected a positive forecast for the rest of the current fiscal year. But buried in the numbers were enough caveats and concerns to make even a cheerful Pollyanna reach for a calculator, a crystal ball and a salt shaker. A linchpin of the financial reports, presented to the Cecil County Council on 11/15/16 by county Finance Director Winston Robinson, was a prediction that county revenues from income taxes would continue to rise. However, state budget officials have issued two warnings in recent months that state revenues from income taxes would be lower than expected for the rest of the current budget year and next year—and as a result, Governor Hogan has scaled back on state spending and tax cut plans. The state collects a local income tax for Cecil and other counties as a “piggyback” on top of state income taxes. In Cecil County, even higher than expected local income tax money received just a few months ago has already been mostly wiped out by higher costs for county [&#8230;]]]></description>
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