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		<title>Cecil County Council Backs Most of County Exec&#8217;s Budget; Rejects Cuts to Cops, Schools, EMS&#8211; But Some Sewer Fees Uncertain</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 20:32:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Cecil County Council voted late Thursday afternoon to support most of County Executive Tari Moore’s Fiscal 2014 budget proposal, repeatedly rejecting proposals by Councilors Diana Broomell (R-4) and Michael Dunn to (R-3) to slash money for county public schools, public safety and infrastructure projects. The votes showed the intentions of the majority of the Council on a wide range of budget issues but are not yet final or binding. The Council must adopt a county budget in a formal legislative session on Tuesday 5/21/13, and some of the amendments voted down on Thursday could be presented again. But on most points, the intent of the majority was clear and few if any changes are expected. But there was still one major issue left open: how to ease the impact of a proposed huge boost in “major facility fees” for sewage services—the charges assessed to new business customers seeking to hook-up to the county’s sewage treatment plants. The fees are currently set at $10,000 per unit (some businesses require many ‘units’ to meet their needs) but Moore proposed boosting the fee to $16,100. Pending a solution on how to phase-in the big increases, the Council indicated it would not endorse [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil County &#8220;Holy Crap Moment&#8221;&#8211; Sewage Plant Upgrade Flushes Out Debate on Costs, Pay Now or Later?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 16:37:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was the Scott Flanigan show at the Cecil County Council Tuesday morning, as the county’s Director of Public Works, with a supporting cast of staff and consultants and charts projected on the wall, waded through the muck of the county’s Seneca Point sewage treatment plant&#8211; and made a strong case for spending $29 million in county funds to proceed with a modern but proven technology to meet state-mandated cleanup standards while also preparing for potential future expansion of sewage services. But, like in any good drama, he had an antagonist on the stage: County Councilor Diana Broomell (R-4), who questioned the technology, growth projections, and whether the former County Commissioners—including herself&#8211; really knew what was going on when they voted in the past to support the technology and its costs. In a post on her website here: https://dbroomell.blogspot.com/2013/04/i-am-very-concerned-that-cecil-county.html Broomell argues that the costs are excessive and the immediate requirement of meeting new state environmental standards could be met for free by doing a bare-bones technology that would be paid for in full by a state grant. Scrolling down past some of the political rhetoric, Broomell does make an interesting, and important, argument: should current sewer service customers, and current [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Higher Sewer Fee Plan Looms as Cecil County Faces Mandated $40M Upgrade of Seneca Point; Broomell Questions Technology</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:16:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new study of sewer user fees is being drafted as part of the new Cecil County budget process and the county’s public works director warned Tuesday that the fees paid by current and future users of the Seneca Point treatment plant will have to rise to offset some of the costs of a $40 million upgrade required by state environmental standards. “We are in the process of updating” a previous proposal for sewer service rates and “it’s going to have to be increased—that’s not a secret,” said Scott Flanigan, the county’s Director of Public Works. Last year, a majority of the former Board of Commissioners refused to approve most of the higher fees called for in a previous study of rates and fees. Sewage treatment services are considered an “enterprise” fund separate from general county tax revenues and the costs of providing such sewer services are supposed to be paid by those residents and businesses whose properties are connected to the system. But if county officials refuse—as the Three Amigos faction of the Commissioners did last year—to raise user fees sufficiently to cover costs, general tax money ends up supporting the system. Much of the county’s residential properties rely [&#8230;]]]></description>
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