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		<title>Commissioner Dunn Targets Cecil County Ag Coordinator; Closed-Door Move Has Political Hint</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 20:02:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Cecil Times Special Report Cecil County Commissioner Michael Dunn (R-3) proposed during a closed-door meeting of the County Commissioners last week to drop the current agriculture co-coordinator position in the county’s Department of Economic Development, according to multiple informed sources. Agriculture and farm-related business constitutes a major segment of the Cecil County economy. The position is currently held by the wife of the campaign treasurer for a Circuit Court judge facing voters in the 2012 election, when Dunn’s former boss, Del. Michael Smigiel (R-36), is widely expected to run for a judgeship challenging the incumbent. The move by Dunn came last Tuesday, at a closed-door meeting of the county commissioners, for which the board cited sections of the state’s Open Meetings Law only allowing secret discussions of “pending or potential litigation.” No personnel issues were cited. Nevertheless, Dunn—who normally says almost nothing in public sessions of the commissioners&#8211; proposed getting rid of the ag coordinator, a position currently held by Joanne Richart Young, according to multiple sources who spoke to Cecil Times on condition of anonymity. Dunn claimed that the recent citizens’ budget advisory committee had made such a proposal, according to sources. After Tuesday’s commissioners’ worksession, Board President [&#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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