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		<title>Cecil County Council OKs Hornberger Budget, I95 Toll Study Dropped; Library, Pension Cuts Accepted&#8211; Soda, Anyone?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2021 23:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS ANALYSIS Call it the once-a-month soda budget: you’ll be able to treat yourself to an occasional large Coke at the drive-through under the slightly over a penny cut in property tax rates set in the new Fiscal 2022 budget proposed by County Executive Danielle Hornberger and approved by the Cecil County Council Tuesday night. (6/1/2021). But there won’t be COLAs of the financial sort for library employees and cuts to first responders pension fund contributions may have those dedicated professionals reaching for aspirin instead of a cold drink. In her budget for the fiscal year that begins on 7/1/2021, Hornberger sets the property tax rate at $1.0279 or slightly over a penny. (about 0.0135-cents) decrease from the current Fiscal 2021 rate of $1.0414, per $100 of assessed property valuation. So for a home assessed at a full value of $200,000, the property tax bill sent out this summer will be $26.94 less than last year’s annual bill. For a home with an assessed property value of $300,000, the new tax bill will yield a savings of $40.50—so add a mini-burger off the dollar menu to that monthly Coke. But for homeowners in the western area of the county whose [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Most Local Virus Deaths at Calvert Nursing Home; Hogan Boosts Aid on Lower Shore as Harris Rallies to “Re-open” Biz in Virus Hot Spot; Cecil County Launches Small Biz “Recovery” Plan</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2020 00:07:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the COVID-19 virus continues to spread in Maryland, new—but flawed—data from the state Health Department shows that a majority of fatalities have occurred in nursing homes and assisted living facilities. But the state report fails to accurately depict the tally in Cecil County, where the state claims there was just 1 virus death at the Calvert Manor nursing home in Rising Sun but county health statistics show that 7 of the 8 total deaths in the county occurred at Calvert Manor. It is one of the sad ironies of the current pandemic that Calvert Manor—for many years the top-rated nursing home in the county, according to Center for Medicare/Medicaid Services (CMS) reports, for its quality of care and infection control efforts—has become the center of the pandemic in Cecil County. Under orders from Gov. Larry Hogan, the state began just this week to publicly identify confirmed cases and deaths at nursing homes throughout Maryland. The state report listed 16 confirmed cases of the virus among staff at Calvert Manor, with no fatalities, plus 53 confirmed cases among residents, with 1 fatality. But in response to questions from CECIL TIMES, county health officials said that the actual local tally was [&#8230;]]]></description>
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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>
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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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