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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>
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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>Gov. Hogan Closes Maryland Public Schools; Expands Emergency Powers as Cecil County Prepares for Virus Impact</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2020 23:46:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maryland Governor Larry Hogan announced late Thursday (3/12/2020) a series of emergency steps to address the COVID-19 coronavirus, including closure of all public schools in the state for two weeks, effective on Monday 3/16/2020 until 3/27/2020. Hogan’s announcement came two hours after Cecil County Executive Alan McCarthy held a press conference, surrounded by local officials involved in the local response to the virus, to address the public health emergency. Hogan, who had previously declared a state of emergency in the state to cope with the health issue, said during a televised press conference in Annapolis that the state Superintendent of Schools had decided—and his team of health and emergency services advisors agreed—that all state public schools will close .as of Monday and stay closed for two weeks to allow deep cleaning and disinfecting of school facilities. The governor announced the first case of a “community” transmission of the virus, meaning that someone with no history of travel outside the US or contact with a known virus-positive person, had been diagnosed in Prince George’s County. He said a total of 12 people in the state had tested positive for the virus, primarily after international travel. Hogan also said he would close [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil County Budget: Higher Fees, from Houses to Jukeboxes; Costs Rise under Moore Budget Plan</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2015 17:11:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[News Analysis Cecil County Executive Tari Moore’s proposed budget would boost fees and taxes on many aspects of local residents’ daily lives, from buying a new home to living in a “manufactured” house, to playing a video game or a jukebox. Some of the proposed fee hikes are modest, affect rather obscure services and haven’t been changed in decades. Others, however, are controversial and could have significant impact on individual homeowners, homebuyers and the real estate industry. All told, the proposed new fee schedule would generate over $2.6 million in revenues to the county. And on top of those fee increases, Moore’s budget proposed a more than 2-cent increase in the local property tax rate, from the current 0.9907 to $1.0132 per $100 of assessed value. As a result, property taxes are estimated to yield $95,782,342 in revenues to the county in the new budget—an increase of over $4.1 million, due to the tax boost as well as projected higher property value assessments calculated by the state. As part of the fee and residents’ expense increase segment of her budget, Moore would do away with a 2 percent discount currently offered property owners who pay their tax bills early, by [&#8230;]]]></description>
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