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		<title>Sewage Fees: Another &#8216;Holy Crap Moment&#8217; Faces County Council; Will They Punt Again?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2018 20:19:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS ANALYSIS The three water-filled jugs placed in front of the witness table at the Cecil County Council worksession on Tuesday (7/17/2018) were a graphic show-and-tell representation of what has been described in the past as a “holy crap moment” in the long and politically torturous saga of providing and paying for adequate sewage services in the county. One jug was a murky shade of deep brown: untreated raw sewage as it flows through pipes into the county’s Seneca Point treatment plant on the Northeast River; one jug contained amber-hued water from the river itself, the same waters local residents enjoy for swimming and fishing; and the final jug contained crystal clear water discharged from the state-of-the-art treatment plant. The jugs were also a metaphor for the county’s fiscal health and the questions facing the County Council: will the county continue to take the murky waters route to bury the actual costs of providing sewage services to those who use the facilities by raiding general revenues provided by all taxpayers, including those who do not use the services? (That ‘brown jug’ option cost general fund accounts $3.2 million in Fiscal 2017.) Or will the Council choose an amber-hued middle ground, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Traffic Deaths Rise in Cecil County, as Transportation Plan Pushes Different Priorities</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2016 16:22:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS ANALYSIS Cecil County registered record numbers of traffic fatalities last year—and pedestrian death rates were the worst in Maryland—but the county administration recently shifted transportation project priorities away from road safety improvements, especially along Route 40 where many fatalities have occurred. Gerry Widdoes, the Chief Deputy for the Cecil County Sheriff’s Department, recently advised the County Council of traffic fatalities data compiled by the agency for 2015, showing 16 traffic fatalities on local roads, up from 14 in 2014. In an interview with Cecil Times, Widdoes, the second-ranking law enforcement official in the department, said that four pedestrian deaths were recorded, resulting in a population-adjusted death rate that was the highest in the state of Maryland. The overall traffic fatalities rate was the 8th worst in the state, on a population-adjusted basis. Cecil County’s traffic fatalities rate was twice the state average, according to Widdoes. “It’s one of the saddest statistics,” he observed. Many of the incidents occurred in areas with no sidewalks or road shoulders for pedestrians to use and some of the victims were homeless or transient people. Overall, 3 of the total traffic fatalities involved victims who were “alcohol-impaired.” Concerns over rising traffic fatalities and car [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil County Council Tinkers with Moore Budget; Slight Spending Cuts, Tiny Tax Rise&#8211; Worries About Reserve Funds Raid</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2016 19:51:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Cecil County Council decided on Tuesday (6/7/16) to approve lame duck County Executive Tari Moore’s final budget with minimal spending cut tinkering&#8211; putting just $131,000 back into reserve funds that Moore has raided by over $12.4 million during her tenure. The Council went along with Moore’s proposed property tax rate for Fiscal 2017, imposing a tiny, far less than a penny boost from the current tax rate. The Council also cut spending in the Fiscal 2017 capital budget, which covers construction projects, by $6.18 million, in part by delaying some projects until the following fiscal year. Moore’s budget for the Fiscal 2017 budget year, which begins on 7/1/16, proposed a tax rate of 0.9914, a miniscule increase from the current rate of 0.9907 per $100 of property valuation. So for a home assessed for tax purposes at $200,000, the current tax bill would be $1,981.40. At the new rate, the same property’s tax bill would be $1,982.80—an increase of $1.40 per year. The new tax rate is set at the “constant yield” level—which means the rate needed to generate the same amount of property tax revenues to the county as it received in the previous budget year. Lower property [&#8230;]]]></description>
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