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		<title>Enterprise Zones, Winners/ Losers: Cecil County Council Falters, Ponders, Reverses Course</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Oct 2019 23:21:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Schwerzler]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS ANALYSIS Which retirement account investment option would you prefer: 100% of $100,000 or 70% of $1 million? Seems like a no-brainer: $100,000 or $700,000 in your later-years pocket. But it took a while for the fiscal lightbulbs to be turned on at a Cecil County Council worksession on Tuesday (10/15/2019), after Councilor George Patchell and the county’s economic development director flipped the light switch. As a result, Councilor Jackie Gregory (R-5) lost a vote to challenge individual projects proposed for inclusion in “enterprise zone” economic development plans, and some of her initial supporters on the panel changed course. By the end of the day, Gregory acknowledged the obvious and supported approval of the enterprise zone list at an evening Council legislative meeting. At issue was legislation to designate five properties to be included on an application to the state of Maryland for possible designation as “enterprise zones,” which provide temporary property tax abatements for land on which new economic development projects are developed. Fundamentally, the zones give temporary property tax breaks at the state and county level during the first 10 years of a project, while greatly increasing the taxable value of the land due to the new development [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Annapolis Legislation Gives Cecil County Headaches, but Rural &#8220;Coalition&#8221; Bid has Drawbacks</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:37:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As long as the state General Assembly is in session, it seems that every week brings another litany of legislation that could cause headaches and costly mandates for Cecil County. County Commissioners heard about a legislative laundry list of troublesome proposals on Tuesday— and received an appeal from a controversial Frederick County official trying to enlist support for his lobbying efforts in Annapolis. Pat Conway, Cecil County’s director of permits and inspections, outlined several legislative proposals that could impose costly regulatory burdens on the county as well as re-open one of the most contentious issues— residential fire sprinklers—that the local government has dealt with in recent years. During the Cecil County Commissioners Tuesday worksession, Conway described state legislative proposals that could remove the county’s ability to “opt out” of an international building code mandating sprinklers. After months of heated debate—literally heated, including controlled fire demonstrations of sprinkler systems outside the county administration building—the county commissioners voted a year ago to rescind legislation adopted by a previous commissioners’ board mandating sprinklers in new single-family home construction. Another legislative proposal would require the county to inspect residential balconies on a regular basis to evaluate potential safety hazards. Conway said the county does [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil County Commish Split on Pipkin Teacher Pensions Bill; &#8220;Patriots&#8221; Protest Pipkin Mandate</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 23:10:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The evolving political split among the Cecil County Commissioners came into play Tuesday when two commissioners tried to get the Board go on record against proposed state legislation, sponsored by state Sen. E.J. Pipkin (R-36), to transfer some financial responsibility for teacher pensions from the state to the counties. But a three-member majority of the all-Republican board refused to speak out against the Pipkin legislation. At the same time, members of the Cecil County Patriots—the local “tea party” organization that has often been at odds with the political machine led by Pipkin and his ally, Del. Michael D. Smigiel (R-36)—announced plans to testify and protest against the Pipkin pension bill at a hearing in Annapolis on Wednesday 3/2/11. For the second consecutive year, Pipkin has proposed legislation that would transfer responsibility for local teachers’ pensions from the state to local counties. But this year’s version (SB629) includes some mitigating language that would only transfer pension obligations to the counties insofar as the costs are above the median for the state. Pipkin has maintained that his newest proposal would not harm Eastern Shore counties in his district but would force more urbanized counties, such as Montgomery County, to pick up the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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