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		<title>Deputies, &#8216;Transparency&#8217; Advocates Challenge Hornberger at Budget ‘Town Hall’; Schools, Library Backers Join Chorus of Critics</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2022 01:58:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS ANALYSIS In the past, Cecil County budget hearings usually sounded like polite beg-a-thons, with primarily schools and libraries advocates pleading for funds. But this year, a budget “town hall” meeting in Elkton was a chorus of anger and direct challenges to County Executive Danielle Hornberger’s policies, lack of spending “transparency” and short-changing of Sheriff’s deputies. As a solid blue line of Sheriff’s deputies&#8211;some in full uniform and others in polo shirts bearing the agency’s insignia&#8211; stood in the back of the Elk Room at the county administration building on Thursday (3/3/2021), two deputies spoke for them and voiced their outrage. “We are in a crisis,” said Michael Zack, a 19-year veteran of the Sheriff’s Office and a former president of the FOP union representing deputies. Consistently low pay here, even as surrounding agencies have significantly boosted pay and are actively recruiting law enforcement officers, has led to a brain drain of experienced deputies here, he said. “While seeking election, deputies listened to you” saying that she was “a supporter of law enforcement,” Zack told Hornberger, who was seated in the front of the room but did not respond to citizen speakers. But Zack said that “townships in Pennsylvania” and [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>BULLETIN: Cecil County Council Adopts Intact McCarthy Budget, Rejects Gregory Hits on Emergency Services, Library</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2020 01:39:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BULLETIN The Cecil County Council Tuesday night adopted the Fiscal 2021 budget proposed by County Executive Alan McCarthy after a lengthy afternoon worksession at which Council members rejected multiple spending cuts proposed by Councilor Jackie Gregory (R-5), including payments for first responders’ and correctional officers’ overtime work. The one cut in the operating budget endorsed at the afternoon worksession – eliminating a $30,000 position for an administrative aide at the county’s animal shelter—was reversed on a 3-2 vote at the evening session after David Trolio, director of the Department of Community Services which oversees the animal operations, outlined the need for the position—the only new staff hiring in the entire county budget proposal. Gregory and Councilor Bill Coutz (R-2) voted to cut the position while Council President Bob Meffley (R-1) and Councilors Al Miller and George Patchell voted to retain the position in the budget. On the vote to formally adopt the operating budget, Gregory and Coutz voted no while Meffley, Miller and Patchell voted for the budget. Coutz did not offer any spending cut proposals of his own but noted he had worked with Gregory on some of her amendments proposed at the worksession. Gregory also voted no on [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>BULLETIN: Councilor Gregory Targets Emergency Services, Library, Parks for Cecil Co Budget Cuts; Worksession, Council Votes Expected Today</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2020 16:32:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cecil County Council member Jackie Gregory (R-5) has drafted a list of budget cuts for the proposed Fiscal 2021 county budget that will be considered today (5/19/2020), with no advance public notice, that particularly targets county library, parks, and emergency services, including paramedics responding to emergency calls during the current COVID-19 pandemic. Gregory, who is running for re-election in the June 2 Republican primary, was still writing and re-writing her proposals late Monday night and is expected to offer amendments to the budget during a Council worksession that is slated to begin at 3.30 p.m. on Tuesday. The Council is meeting via videoconferencing and is also scheduled to vote on the full Fiscal 2020 budget during an evening legislative meeting that will also be conducted remotely. It is the first time in two years that Gregory, a routine critic of the county budget, has actually offered a list of amendments and sought formal votes on spending cuts. For the past two years she has just offered a few verbal suggestions, such as a possible $140,000 cut in parks operating funds last year, and instead called for using emergency reserve funds to lower the property tax rate, which has been frozen [&#8230;]]]></description>
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