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		<title>Cecil County to Get $9.9 million Biden Windfall; County Exec Budget Cuts First Responders Pension $; Capital Budget Fudge</title>
		<link>https://ceciltimes.com/2021/05/cecil-county-to-get-9-9-million-biden-windfall-soon-county-exec-budget-cuts-first-responders-pension-funds-capital-budget-fudge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2021 23:48:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS ANALYSIS Cecil County is about to receive a $9.9 million windfall under the new American Rescue Plan signed into law in March by President Biden but some of County Executive Danielle Hornberger’s budget actions could limit how, and how much, money could be spent to help the county recover from the impacts of the COVID pandemic. At the same time, Hornberger’s proposed Fiscal 2022 budget would reduce allocations to pension funds for first responders, violate budget rules for how capital budget construction costs are allocated, and mislead local residents about her proposals and errors by some of her new political appointees as department heads. Several weeks ago, the National Association of Counties (NACO) did a county-by-county analysis of the American Rescue Plan’s impact on counties around the nation. And those calculations were confirmed in documents released on Monday by the White House, showing that Cecil County will receive a total of $19,948,094 over two years, with the first installment of $9.9 million to be paid this month and the balance paid next year. The state of Maryland will receive $3.7 billion as a one-time payment, plus a special pool of nearly $529,000 that will be available for distribution to [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Hornberger Budget Cuts Property Tax Rate Slightly, Keeps Income Tax Boost; $1 Extra for Schools, Cuts Library Operations</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2021 15:16:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Schwerzler]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS ANALYSIS Cecil County Executive Danielle Hornberger submitted her first budget to the County Council on 4/1/2021, proposing about a 1-cent cut in the property tax rate while keeping income tax rates at the level set by her predecessor, Alan McCarthy. She also slashed operating funds for county libraries and bestowed the hefty sum of $1 above a state-required county aid level for public schools in order to avoid losing substantial state education aid. At the same time, there were substantial pay raise costs for two of her newly appointed department heads whose Republican Party and Annapolis political credentials far exceed their local government experience. The capital budget, which covers various construction projects that are supposed to have at least ten years of useful life, includes several surprise expenditures for projects that had been cast aside in the past for legal or practical/longevity reasons. The capital budget expenditures do not “count” in calculations for the property tax rate, the bell-weather of local politics, but the costs still must be paid over long-term bond expenses. In her 2020 political campaign, Hornberger pledged to “rollback the tax increases” enacted under the four-year administration of McCarthy, whom she defeated in the Republican primary. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil County Council Approves New Budget, Freezes Tax Rate; Schools Untouched, Sheriff Gets Last Minute Hit</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2015 21:42:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Cecil County Council approved a new Fiscal 2016 budget Tuesday night, cutting spending by over $2 million to kill a property tax increase proposed by County Executive Tari Moore. But the council’s deliberations went to the wire with a last-minute $150,000 spending cut in the county Sheriff’s Department budget that already had been reduced. The hit on the Sheriff’s budget was initiated by County Council President Robert Hodge (R-5), who had been pressing for weeks for even deeper, $250,000 cuts in the Sheriff’s budget but had met resistance from fellow Council members. But Hodge saw his opportunity to resurrect a scaled-back budget cut Tuesday morning, when the council was looking for ways to mitigate the impact of a new Moore-proposed property transfer tax&#8211; with a two-month delay to cover existing sales/purchase contracts. After vote shifts by two Councilors from the morning to the evening sessions on Tuesday, Hodge’s $150,000 cut in the Sheriff’s budget was nevertheless approved at the evening meeting, as Major George Stanko, head of the Sheriff’s law enforcement division, sat stoically in the front of the audience. In contrast, the Cecil County Public Schools (CCPS) emerged victorious with nary a nick in the schools’ budget, except [&#8230;]]]></description>
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