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		<title>Cecil County Budget: Virus &#8220;Crisis&#8221; and Revenue Uncertainty Shape Budget; County Exec Avoids Raid on Emergency Funds</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS ANALYSIS Cecil County Executive Alan McCarthy admits putting together the Fiscal 2021 county budget was a bit like being in a hurricane bunker while hoping that the COVID-19 pandemic that has wreaked havoc with the state and local economy won’t overwhelm the fiscal safety measures he installed over the past three years that could help the county weather the storm. “I must say it is by far the most difficult budget my staff and I have ever put forward,” McCarthy said Wednesday (4/1/2020) in presenting his proposals during a Facebook live teleconference. “We are in the midst of a crisis none of us has ever experienced before.” He said that he and his staff had to rewrite the budget substantially in the past two weeks, as the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded and Gov. Larry Hogan took escalating steps to shut down most businesses in the state, leading to his most recent “stay home” order to all but essential services workers. The new county budget proposal freezes property tax rates and income tax rates at current levels and the county executive has included a new property tax credit for senior citizens to give them up to a 20 percent break on [&#8230;]]]></description>
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