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		<title>New Regional Panel Leader Sides with Cecil County Mayors, Zang to Represent Towns; Bankrupt Council Gets New $, New Leader</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Upper Shore Regional Council, which was out of business and out of money during the tenure of Cecil County Commissioner James Mullin (R-1) as its chairman, has new leadership, new money in the bank and a new representative of Cecil County towns. The new chairman of the Council, which serves as a tri-county planning and resource agency for Cecil, Kent and Queen Anne’s counties, is William Pickrum, who also heads the Kent County Board of Commissioners. And in one of his first official acts, he said Tuesday that he would honor the request of Cecil County’s eight town mayors to rescind a controversial appointment of a Perryville town councilman to the regional panel and instead seat Joseph Zang, the mayor of Cecilton, who was chosen by the mayors as their representative. “It’s in the bylaws” that the mayors of each county select their representative to the regional council, said Pickrum, speaking via speakerphone at a meeting of the council’s executive board in Chestertown. If the Cecil County mayors want Zang as their representative, “that works,” he said. During the January 4-6 winter convention of the Maryland Association of Counties (MACO) at a resort in Cambridge, a meeting of the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil County Lawmakers Push Revived Upper Shore Council; State Withholds $ due to &#8220;Organizational Issues&#8221;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some Cecil County lawmakers are pushing to resurrect the Upper Shore Regional Council, a three-county economic development body that all but disappeared several months ago amidst financial and other problems. A council sub-group tried to meet behind closed doors Wednesday on steps to name a new executive director, but Cecil Times forced much of the meeting to be open to the press under the state Open Meetings law. The push to pick a new executive director comes even as some members of the full Upper Shore Regional Council (USRC) are raising questions about the group’s mission, direction and value to the three participating counties: Cecil, Kent and Queen Anne&#8217;s. At the same time, the state has withheld over $73,000 from the USRC this year in light of what a spokeswoman called “organizational issues.” An executive committee of USRC convened Wednesday in Chestertown, at the offices of the Kent County Commissioners since the USRC had to give up its own separate office space due to its financial problems. The meeting had not been announced to the public in advance, but Kent County administrative aides had confirmed the meeting was to take place at the county building. (The last public meeting of [&#8230;]]]></description>
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