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		<title>Sewage Fees: Another &#8216;Holy Crap Moment&#8217; Faces County Council; Will They Punt Again?</title>
		<link>https://ceciltimes.com/2018/07/sewage-fees-another-holy-crap-moment-faces-county-council-will-they-punt-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2018 20:19:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS ANALYSIS The three water-filled jugs placed in front of the witness table at the Cecil County Council worksession on Tuesday (7/17/2018) were a graphic show-and-tell representation of what has been described in the past as a “holy crap moment” in the long and politically torturous saga of providing and paying for adequate sewage services in the county. One jug was a murky shade of deep brown: untreated raw sewage as it flows through pipes into the county’s Seneca Point treatment plant on the Northeast River; one jug contained amber-hued water from the river itself, the same waters local residents enjoy for swimming and fishing; and the final jug contained crystal clear water discharged from the state-of-the-art treatment plant. The jugs were also a metaphor for the county’s fiscal health and the questions facing the County Council: will the county continue to take the murky waters route to bury the actual costs of providing sewage services to those who use the facilities by raiding general revenues provided by all taxpayers, including those who do not use the services? (That ‘brown jug’ option cost general fund accounts $3.2 million in Fiscal 2017.) Or will the Council choose an amber-hued middle ground, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>New Cecil County Budget Freezes Property, Income Tax Rates; Boosts School $, Sewer Fees</title>
		<link>https://ceciltimes.com/2018/03/new-cecil-county-budget-plan-freezes-property-income-tax-rates-boosts-school-spending-sewer-fees/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2018 19:24:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cecil County Executive Alan McCarthy unveiled his new Fiscal 2019 budget plan on Friday (3/30/2018), freezing property and income tax rates at current levels, boosting school spending slightly, and calling for a major increase in sewage treatment fees in order to balance the wastewater fund. The budget now goes to the County Council, which cannot increase spending but can make spending cuts or reduce proposed fees. The most controversial proposal in McCarthy’s budget will likely be a major boost in sewage fees, steps that the Council and its predecessor County Commissioners have resisted for years. That resistance persisted even as public works officials warned that costs, especially for state-mandated environmental upgrades, exceeded the revenues from fees paid by users of the services. In unveiling his budget, McCarthy said that despite an improving local economy, with the recent addition of over 1,500 jobs and major new employers such as Amazon, TruAir, Fortress Steel and the forthcoming Lidl warehouse operation, the county is still feeling lingering effects of the sluggish state economy. The local unemployment rate is down, he said, but still higher than the state average. There was “a total lack of economic growth in Cecil County” when he came into [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>ARCA Lawsuits Cost County, Citizens Up to $1Million and Counting on Artesian Sale</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 22:29:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An anti-growth community group has cost Cecil County government and local residents up to $1 million, and counting, in the past two years with a dragged-out lawsuit challenging the county’s sale of several water and wastewater plants to the private Artesian water company. And now the county is faced with a choice on how to try to contain those costs while still awaiting a final ruling by the state’s highest court. The Appleton Regional Community Alliance (ARCA) has filed suit against Cecil County 13 times since 2004, according to Cecil County Circuit Court records, on various land use and policy decisions. ARCA has lost all its cases except for two actions, joined for the purposes of an appeal, which are still pending. The outstanding cases challenge the county’s 2008 decision to sell most of its water and wastewater-treatment facilities to Artesian, a Delaware-based private water and wastewater treatment facilities operator. The county Commissioners decided, in an October, 2008 unanimous vote, to sell several county-owned water and wastewater-treatment facilities to Artesian for $13 million. The county owed $10 million in debt on the facilities, so the proceeds of the sale would have paid off that debt, given the county $3 million [&#8230;]]]></description>
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