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		<title>Smoke and Snooker, Promises and Placeholders: Will the Real Cecil County Budget Please Stand Up?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2021 22:34:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS ANALYSIS Cecil County Executive Danielle Hornberger’s proposed Fiscal 2022 budget, which will go before local residents at a public hearing on Thursday (5/20/2021), has become an ever changing list of promises and wishes—and a challenge to the County Council to figure out what is real or imagined. In addition, budget worksessions before the County Council disclosed this week that the Board of Elections (BOE) was significantly underfunded in the proposed budget, which covers the next fiscal year in which the BOE will have to implement costly new procedures under legislation passed this year by the General Assembly to expand early voting locations and absentee ballot distribution and processing in 2022. And the county health department also received a cut in county financial support. But witnesses said they had been assured by Hornberger’s administration that their agencies would get unspecified additional funds later in the year via budget amendments and the proposed budget amounted to placeholders for later actions. Where Hornberger would get the money for additional spending was unclear nor was there a timetable for such action or estimates of how much additional money might be available. No local budget is ever written in stone and budget amendments throughout [&#8230;]]]></description>
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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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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2020 19:10:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Schwerzler]]></dc:creator>
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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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		<title>New Cecil County Budget Freezes Property, Income Tax Rates; Boosts Schools by $2.4 Million</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2019 21:45:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cecil County Executive Alan McCarthy unveiled his new Fiscal 2020 budget plan on Friday (3/29/2019), freezing property and income tax rates at current levels and boosting school spending by $2.44 million, or 3.6 percent above the state-mandated local aid for the schools. The budget, McCarthy’s third since taking office, continues his stated policy of refusing to tap into emergency and fiscal cushion reserve funds and enacting “pay as you go” budgets that balance expenditures with available revenues each year. In addition, new fiscal regulations initiated by McCarthy and approved recently by the County Council will make it harder for any future county executive to turn back the clock to the “deficit spending” of his predecessor as county executive and past County Commissioner boards. The budget proposes no new major initiatives but continues and expands projects launched in previous budgets, including a third artificial turf high school athletic field (North East); continued development of the Calvert regional park, including expanded parking areas; construction of the new North East library; and development of a new Chesapeake City elementary school. But the budget also provides for hiring two new assistant state’s attorneys, beginning next January, to help prosecute the rising caseload of drug-related [&#8230;]]]></description>
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