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		<title>Cecil County Budget Post-Mortem: Politics, Policy, Process (or the Good, Bad, and Ugly)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS ANALYSIS The Cecil County Council recently adopted the first budget under the new Charter form of government in a rocky, often bumbling process that left many citizens – and even some Council members&#8211;wondering what was going on when the final votes were taken. It was indeed a learning process, as County Executive Tari Moore and several Council members have conceded, but it didn’t have to be quite so messy. “I was so disappointed in that budget process I could scream,” Councilor Alan McCarthy (R-1) said. “It was a mess.” And even County Council President Robert Hodge (R-5), who presided over the process and took fellow Council members and citizens by surprise with some last-minute budget cuts, conceded the Council “coulda, shoulda, woulda done better.” The Council got tied up in procedural knots over how, and when, to handle the multiple resolutions to implement the various components of the budget—operating budget, capital budget, landfill funds, sewage funds—and yielded to insistence by Winston Robinson, the county’s Director of Finance, on how to proceed. As a result, citizens attending the nearly four-hour evening session on 5/21/13 were treated to lengthy recitations of line-by-line spending allocations as proposed in the executive’s budget, then [&#8230;]]]></description>
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