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		<title>Cecil County Council Lobs Budget Ball Over Moore&#8217;s Net; Schools Get $ Love, But in Tennis and Politics Love = Zero</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2015 19:15:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[COMMENTARY The budget adopted by the Cecil County Council this week was the toughest top-to-bottom scrutiny of county government spending in the three years of Charter government, with one glaring exception: the public schools. And the only significant item eventually cut from the schools &#8211;tennis court repairs—became a symbolic issue as the Council fought until the last minute to save them. In this year’s complex budget process, there were some winners and losers, some winners who also lost, and two stars who rose above the process with common sense and conviction. The clear loser in the process was County Executive Tari Moore, whose property tax increase was repudiated by the Council. And the fact that the Council found over $2.6 million in spending cuts suggested the panel was willing to make tough decisions that she was not. Even though her more than two-cents boost on the property tax rate was killed, Moore still bears the political burden of having proposed it—along with a new transfer tax on property sales/purchases that alienated the business and real estate community. After two years of “feel good” budgets that froze the property tax rate&#8211; but relied heavily on reserve funds accumulated by the old [&#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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		<title>BULLETIN: Cecil County Council Slashes Extra $150K from Sheriff; Delays Land Transfer Tax Briefly</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2015 18:06:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a last-minute move just hours before the Cecil County Council was slated to approve the Fiscal 2016 budget, Council President Robert Hodge (R-5) pushed through another $150,000 cut in the Sheriff Department’s budget Tuesday morning. Hodge had been angling for weeks for deeper cuts, especially aimed at eliminating the position of head of the Community Corrections unit under the Sheriff Department’s umbrella. The Community Corrections post is now held by Barry Janney, the former Sheriff of Cecil County. But fellow Councilors had been reluctant to go along with Hodge’s plan. However, Hodge saw his opportunity to resurrect his Sheriff cuts Tuesday morning to come up with money to pay for a proposal by Councilor Joyce Bowlsbey (R-2) for a brief reprieve from County Executive Tari Moore’s imposition of a new property transfer tax. Bowlsbey proposed that people or businesses that had signed a sales/purchase contract as of June 1—prior to the adoption of the new county budget—should pay just the flat $10 fee that was the law of the county when they signed their contracts. “I just think it’s a fairness issue,” Bowlsbey said, noting that one constituent told her that the cost of a planned property purchase would [&#8230;]]]></description>
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