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		<title>Faux Turf Fields Vs. Grass: Budget Plan Costs More and Shifts Expenses out of Cecil Co Schools Budget; Fiscal, Safety Questions</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 May 2017 22:25:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS ANALYSIS A proposal to spend $1 million for an artificial turf playing field in Perryville in the county executive’s Fiscal 2018 budget raises questions about costs, safety and policy issues on pushing expenses out of school accounts into county parks liabilities. In other words, is fake grass greener than the real thing? The Perryville project is just the tip of the astroturf, the first in a long-range plan to build artificial turf fields at four other county high schools, under the Parks and Recreation budget instead of the Cecil County Public Schools (CCPS) budget. Overall, the plan would spend over $5 million in the next few years and remove responsibility for the costs and maintenance of school playing fields from CCPS, thus freeing up room in the schools’ budget for other projects. The CCPS budget is often a target of county spending critics, while the parks budget is usually less of a political bullseye. And the decision to calculate the useful life of the artificial turf fields as being from “10 to 12 years” skirts an issue that plagued CCPS budget deliberations before the County Council two years ago when school tennis court repairs were deemed as lasting slightly [&#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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		<title>Cecil County Council Lobs Budget Ball Over Moore&#8217;s Net; Schools Get $ Love, But in Tennis and Politics Love = Zero</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2015 19:15:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[COMMENTARY The budget adopted by the Cecil County Council this week was the toughest top-to-bottom scrutiny of county government spending in the three years of Charter government, with one glaring exception: the public schools. And the only significant item eventually cut from the schools &#8211;tennis court repairs—became a symbolic issue as the Council fought until the last minute to save them. In this year’s complex budget process, there were some winners and losers, some winners who also lost, and two stars who rose above the process with common sense and conviction. The clear loser in the process was County Executive Tari Moore, whose property tax increase was repudiated by the Council. And the fact that the Council found over $2.6 million in spending cuts suggested the panel was willing to make tough decisions that she was not. Even though her more than two-cents boost on the property tax rate was killed, Moore still bears the political burden of having proposed it—along with a new transfer tax on property sales/purchases that alienated the business and real estate community. After two years of “feel good” budgets that froze the property tax rate&#8211; but relied heavily on reserve funds accumulated by the old [&#8230;]]]></description>
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