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		<title>Cecil County Budget: Health Dept. Asks $3 Million, Hotel Tax Delayed; Now Heavy Lifting Begins</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[After weeks of listening to department heads defend and explain their budget proposals, the Cecil County Council will hear from citizens next week and then the heavy lifting begins: deciding whether to accept, or cut, County Executive Alan McCarthy’s proposed Fiscal 2018 budget that would boost property tax rates and raise income taxes. Many local residents have already weighed in during public comment sessions at Council meetings, with schools advocates and teachers urging support for the education budget while a local anti-tax group has launched an automated email campaign to oppose the budget’s tax boosts. McCarthy’s budget would raise the property tax rate by 5-cents while raising the income tax rate from 2.8 percent to 3 percent. But the new budget proposal would be fully financed by annual revenues, for the first time in many years, and would not raid a “fund balance” safety-net account that was nearly wiped out by deficit-spending during his predecessor’s four-year term. In the final round of budget hearings before the County Council on 5/16/2017, the Health Department budget, and its key role in combatting the illegal drug epidemic and overdose deaths, was reviewed. The Cecil County Health Department is actually a state agency, staffed [&#8230;]]]></description>
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