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		<title>Cecil County Exec Candidate Forum: Politics, Pauses, Policy; Questions on Budget, Land Use, Route 40 Ugliness</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2020 19:52:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unlike national political debates in this election year that have often turned into rhetorical slugfests and personal attacks, a candidate’s forum for the four Republican candidates for Cecil County Executive was a mostly polite question and answer session, with candidates not engaging directly with one another. The most interesting moments came when some candidates had long pauses in their responses and one struggled to describe the programs and policies she would be in charge of if elected. The candidates’ forum, held at Cecil College on 2/27/2020, was hosted this year by the Cecil County Chamber of Commerce, the Cecil County Classroom Teachers Association, and BEPAC, the Business and Education Partnership Advisory Council&#8211; which consists of executives of major employers in the county that support education and job training efforts. In the past, the Chamber alone hosted county candidate forums. The moderator of the latest forum was Mike Ratchford, a Gore executive, chairman of the county’s Economic Development Commission and the Chamber’s government relations committee representative. Ratchford has served as moderator of past candidate forums and once again he was a calm, reasoned voice in posing questions to candidates and maintaining order and time limits on candidates’ responses..At the outset, he [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>New Cecil County Budget Freezes Property, Income Tax Rates; Boosts Schools by $2.4 Million</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2019 21:45:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cecil County Executive Alan McCarthy unveiled his new Fiscal 2020 budget plan on Friday (3/29/2019), freezing property and income tax rates at current levels and boosting school spending by $2.44 million, or 3.6 percent above the state-mandated local aid for the schools. The budget, McCarthy’s third since taking office, continues his stated policy of refusing to tap into emergency and fiscal cushion reserve funds and enacting “pay as you go” budgets that balance expenditures with available revenues each year. In addition, new fiscal regulations initiated by McCarthy and approved recently by the County Council will make it harder for any future county executive to turn back the clock to the “deficit spending” of his predecessor as county executive and past County Commissioner boards. The budget proposes no new major initiatives but continues and expands projects launched in previous budgets, including a third artificial turf high school athletic field (North East); continued development of the Calvert regional park, including expanded parking areas; construction of the new North East library; and development of a new Chesapeake City elementary school. But the budget also provides for hiring two new assistant state’s attorneys, beginning next January, to help prosecute the rising caseload of drug-related [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Citizens Weigh in on Cecil County Budget; Urge School, Ambulance Funds</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 01:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cecil County’s proposed budget drew mostly polite comments and gratitude from representatives of programs that were frozen but not cut in the new Fiscal 2013 budget but some supporters of the public schools and county emergency services workers forcefully disagreed with Commissioners’ priorities. The Cecil County Commissioners drafted a $169 million proposed budget for Fiscal 2013 that would freeze public schools funds at the current level, give a 1 percent cost-of-living raise to county employees and keep property taxes at the “constant yield” rate. However, since overall revenues are down due to the recession and declining property values, just to bring in the same amount of revenues as this year, the property tax rate will increase by five-cents, from .9401 cents per $100 of assessed property value to .9957 cents in the new budget year, which begins July 1. The proposed budget also taps reserve funds for $3 million to provide over half of a $5.9 million increase in county spending in the new budget year. But over $2.4 million of that figure is actually a contingency plan for the anticipated state shift of teacher pension costs to the county. Dr. D’Ette Devine, the county Superintendent of Schools, told county [&#8230;]]]></description>
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