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		<title>Cecil CO Budget: Moore&#8217;s Last Plan Boosts Employee Pay, Limits School Spending Rise, Taxes Stable; But Reserve Funds Raided Again</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS ANALYSIS In her last budget as Cecil County Executive, Tari Moore—who is not running for re-election&#8211; does more of the same: draining reserve funds, accumulated over many years by past County Commissioners to protect the county against sudden fiscal adversity, in order to pay for her current spending plans. Her latest Fiscal 2017 budget, revealed on Friday 4/1/16, draws down those reserves by another $2.58 million—bringing her four-year hit on county reserve money to at least $12.4 million. Those hits are estimated to reduce remaining “unassigned” reserves to just $2 million for the future, according to budget officials. But her final budget gives some comfort to county employees, who have complained of no or minimal cost of living pay raises or “step” pay grade boosts in recent years. Moore’s budget proposes a 5 percent pay increase for all county employees, and for law enforcement and emergency services workers covered by collective bargaining agreements, the pay and step boosts will be even higher. BUT county workers are facing sharply higher health insurance premiums, so pay boosts could be offset by higher health costs, through boosted insurance premiums or being financially forced to step down to a higher deductible or higher [&#8230;]]]></description>
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