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		<title>Citizens Weigh in on Cecil County Budget; Urge School, Ambulance Funds</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cecil County’s proposed budget drew mostly polite comments and gratitude from representatives of programs that were frozen but not cut in the new Fiscal 2013 budget but some supporters of the public schools and county emergency services workers forcefully disagreed with Commissioners’ priorities. The Cecil County Commissioners drafted a $169 million proposed budget for Fiscal 2013 that would freeze public schools funds at the current level, give a 1 percent cost-of-living raise to county employees and keep property taxes at the “constant yield” rate. However, since overall revenues are down due to the recession and declining property values, just to bring in the same amount of revenues as this year, the property tax rate will increase by five-cents, from .9401 cents per $100 of assessed property value to .9957 cents in the new budget year, which begins July 1. The proposed budget also taps reserve funds for $3 million to provide over half of a $5.9 million increase in county spending in the new budget year. But over $2.4 million of that figure is actually a contingency plan for the anticipated state shift of teacher pension costs to the county. Dr. D’Ette Devine, the county Superintendent of Schools, told county [&#8230;]]]></description>
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