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		<title>Cecil County Council OKs Basell Property for New VoTech School; Classes Could Begin in Early 2015</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2013 03:36:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After years of attempts to find a cost-effective solution to the shortage of vocational and technical education slots for Cecil County public school students, the County Council Tuesday night voted to approve a plan for a new $18.9 million votech school at the 91-acre Basell property in Elkton. The Council’s 3-2 vote was on legislation to authorize the schools to proceed with an option to acquire the property, leading to a subsequent purchase upon completion of engineering and ‘due diligence’ evaluations of the site and its existing 158,000-square foot, two story facility—including 18,750 square feet of modernized scientific laboratories. Voting for the project were Council President Robert Hodge (R-5) and Councilors Alan McCarthy (R-1) and Joyce Bowlsbey (R-2). Opposing the Basell site acquisition were Councilors Diana Broomell (R-4) and Michael Dunn (R-3). “I don’t wish that it fails,” Broomell said of the tech school, but “I don’t think this is the way it should have been done.” Broomell had advocated expanding the existing tech school on its North East site, including use of modular or portable classrooms. “This is a great opportunity to train and educate our youth,” Hodge said. “We have been shortchanging these students.” For many years, there [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil County Cuts Deal to Buy Basell Site for Tech School, but at $4million Price Hike Due to Old &#8216;3 Amigos&#8217; Political Faction</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Aug 2013 22:07:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like the Phoenix rising from the ashes, a long-debated and much needed expansion of vocational/technical education in Cecil County has been resurrected with a proposed deal, announced Friday by the County Executive, to acquire the former Basell building and its 91-acre property on Appleton Road in Elkton for conversion to a new, state-of-the-art tech school and possible multi-use site for parkland and economic development opportunities. But past rejections and delays of the project by the old “Three Amigos” political faction of the Board of County Commissioners will yield a quick, nearly $4 million profit to Baltimore-based real estate interests, who snatched the property up a few months ago at a bargain-basement price in the aftermath of the “Three Amigos” group’s refusal even to consider a county purchase last year. Cecil County Public Schools (CCPS) officials were ecstatic at the revived proposal, which came about in recent weeks in top secret negotiations between CCPS and the new Baltimore owners of the site. Their efforts were encouraged by the shift to Charter government and the results of last November’s election, which yielded a new majority of political support for moving ahead with the conversion of the Basell building—which already features state-of-the-art science [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil County Tech School: Basell Brawl Erupts as Amigos Commish Say NO Again, but School Board Vows to Fight On</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2012 16:13:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The months-long fight over a proposed new vocational-technical high school on the Basell building site in Elkton turned into the “Basell Brawl” Tuesday, as the Three Amigos county commissioner group held firm against even considering it while county school board members vowed to fight on. Tuesday morning, the Three Amigos majority of the Cecil County Commissioners refused even to schedule a discussion to re-consider an appeal by county school officials, supported by business groups and even local fire companies, to allow a feasibility study to proceed to determine if the vacant Basell property should be converted to a new vo-tech high school. School officials met with the commissioners last Tuesday afternoon to request a reconsideration of the proposal and upped the ante on the project by offering to pay the estimated $60,000 cost of an independent engineering and feasibility study out of current school operating funds. [SEE Cecil Times report here: https://ceciltimes.com/2012/10/cecil-county-schools-up-ante-on-votech-school-but-2-amigos-balk/ ] When that meeting ended, two commissioners asked to place the issue on the 10/16/12 morning worksession agenda for further discussion and a vote. But when the agenda for the worksession came out, the schools matter was nowhere to be seen. “We agreed to put it on the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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