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		<title>Cecil County Council Fine-tunes Budget: Tax Boost Killed, Tennis Courts Out, Some Cop Gear In</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2015 17:55:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Cecil County Council reached its goal on Thursday to block a property tax increase proposed by the County Executive, with extra money still available for possible last-minute additional tax relief for citizens or lowering healthcare expenses paid by county employees. After several hours of often chaotic number-crunching and cross-talk at an afternoon meeting on 5/28/15, Councilors put off final decisions until Tuesday, when a morning worksession is slated to put finishing touches on the Fiscal 2016 spending plan before formal adoption of the budget that is scheduled for Tuesday evening. At this point, the County Council has reached tentative agreement on cutting $3,077,159 out of Moore’s proposed $184,785,276 operating budget. From the outset of the panel’s deliberations, most councilors’ top priority has been to kill Moore’s proposed more than two-cent increase on the property tax rate. To do that, the Council had to cut about $2.27 million, and by the end of the day had more than reached that goal. But with some extra money from their cuts lying on the table, the Council could still re-consider its biggest cut&#8211; $400,000 for higher healthcare costs for county employees—or potentially consider more tax relief for citizens, either on the property [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil County Budget: Moore Boosts Exec Spending, Cuts County Council $ for Advisers; Employee Health Costs Explode</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2015 22:19:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS ANALYSIS Cecil County Executive Tari Moore’s new proposed budget would boost her own office’s spending by 3.2 percent while cutting the County Council’s current budget by 4.2 percent, especially in accounts that could enable the Council to hire independent advisers to review or challenge her policies. In addition, county employees have a “Cadillac” health care program that provides such privileged benefits that the plan could face federal tax penalties in the next few years unless benefits are scaled back to more reasonable levels, according to the county’s Human Resources director. In Moore’s new Fiscal 2016 budget proposal, county employee health costs are projected to rise 31.6 percent. [CORRECTION: County Director of Administration Al Wein advised Cecil Times that the County Executive does not receive health care benefits. Our initial report said she was entitled to those benefits, while County Councilors were barred from benefits. Wein says both legislative and executive branch elected officials do not get benefits.] In her budget plan, Moore cut 4.2 percent from the County Council’s proposed operating budget, focusing her cuts on areas, such as professional consulting services, that might enable the Council to challenge her policies or receive independent advice on key issues affecting [&#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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