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		<title>Cecil County Budget: Citizens&#8217; Panel Proposes Cuts, $ Freeze in Schools, Public Safety; Warns Against Raiding Reserve Funds</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A citizen’s budget advisory panel told the Cecil County Council on Tuesday that it should slash county public schools spending to the bare bones level required by state law, ban overtime pay for guards at the county jail, and freeze almost all hiring. But the panel also cautioned that the county executive’s new budget proposal is endangering the county’s fiscal future by draining reserve funds in an uncertain economy to pay for current spending. A similar list of recommendations by a citizens’ panel including some of the same members was virtually ignored by the County Council last year. Several of the latest proposals drew obvious skepticism from Council members on Tuesday. But this time, there was more interest in some more detailed and intriguing analysis by the panel on the county’s economic future and concerns about a pattern of raiding past reserve funds accumulated over decades as a cushion against economic adversity but now being used to pay for current spending. James Butkiewicz, an economist and chair of the seven-member panel, emphasized that the local economy, especially the real estate market, was still troubled and the county government should not be overly optimistic about economic recovery to support local government [&#8230;]]]></description>
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