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		<title>Cecil County Lawmakers Push Revived Upper Shore Council; State Withholds $ due to &#8220;Organizational Issues&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 15:23:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some Cecil County lawmakers are pushing to resurrect the Upper Shore Regional Council, a three-county economic development body that all but disappeared several months ago amidst financial and other problems. A council sub-group tried to meet behind closed doors Wednesday on steps to name a new executive director, but Cecil Times forced much of the meeting to be open to the press under the state Open Meetings law. The push to pick a new executive director comes even as some members of the full Upper Shore Regional Council (USRC) are raising questions about the group’s mission, direction and value to the three participating counties: Cecil, Kent and Queen Anne&#8217;s. At the same time, the state has withheld over $73,000 from the USRC this year in light of what a spokeswoman called “organizational issues.” An executive committee of USRC convened Wednesday in Chestertown, at the offices of the Kent County Commissioners since the USRC had to give up its own separate office space due to its financial problems. The meeting had not been announced to the public in advance, but Kent County administrative aides had confirmed the meeting was to take place at the county building. (The last public meeting of [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil County Commissioners Oust Vernon Thompson, Economic Development Chief; Smipkins Get Even for Political Independence</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 23:55:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Cecil County Commissioners voted in secret session Tuesday to oust Vernon Thompson, a former senior state economic development official, as the county’s Director of Economic Development, according to informed sources. Thompson confirmed that “I will be leaving Cecil County as of September 23 by mutual agreement with the county commissioners.” The move had been widely expected at the beginning of the year, when a new majority of the Board of Commissioners emerged after last year’s elections, but the delay in dropping the guillotine until now had led some county observers to think that Thompson might survive after all. But in recent weeks, there were signs that the new majority of the commissioners was anxious to consolidate control over the department and at least some of them wanted to exert political payback against Thompson on behalf of their state political mentors, who deemed him too independent. The ouster of Thompson was greeted with shock and sadness Tuesday by some local leaders who had worked closely with him on economic development issues. Furthermore, the sudden move was not discussed with the county’s Economic Development Commission leadership in advance. “I think it’s a gigantic loss for Cecil County,” Joyce Bowlsbey, a member [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Dillman Out As Head of Planning Group; Cecil County Ponders Taking in Orphaned Office</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 20:42:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CHESTERTOWN&#8211; The Upper Shore Regional Council, which provides economic development and planning assistance to Cecil County and two other area counties, is facing financial problems and its long-time executive director will be laid off next month. Some Cecil County Commissioners want to take the floundering organization under the county’s wing, providing free office space and support services, until the Council regroups next year. But leaders of Kent and Queen Anne’s counties, which are also members of the three-county group, have questions about such a plan. There were also many other unanswered questions—including why the local Council has such financial problems in the upcoming fiscal year despite an increase of about $27,500 in state funds for Fiscal 2012 and why it is the only regional council of many in the state to face such extreme difficulties. At a Monday meeting of the Council – which consists of county commissioners from Cecil County, Kent County and Queen Anne’s County, as well as local economic development officials and state legislators— the group’s executive director, John A. Dillman, said he would voluntarily be laid off at the end of June as a cost-cutting measure. He declined to tell Cecil Times his current salary. During [&#8230;]]]></description>
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