Cecil County Spending Project

The below is an e-mail received by Donna Caudell of the Cecil County Patriots with regard to questions she asked about the Cecil College budget for FY 2011: Donna—-Craig Whiteford forwarded your questions regarding the FY 2011 College budget request to me. I know he sent you partial answers last Friday, but I would like to expand on his comments (shown below in blue). If you have further questions, please…

On March 13th, questions concerning the 2011 Budget Request for the Office of Economic Development were submited to Director Vernon Thompson. It has been nearly a month, and answers from the Office of Economic Development have not been forthcoming. But, we did get what seems to me to be a somewhat condensending email. I have posted it below, unedited as it was received.

Most dramatic month-to-month increase in unemployed workers among Maryland’s 24 jurisdictions Unemployment data for the month of February for Cecil County is showing a dramatic increase in unemployed workers — the most dramatic increase month to month among Maryland’s 24 jurisdictions. See the map after the link…

The Commissioner’s department should consider cutting travel costs substantially further. The budget request lists $18,900 in costs for the year. I can see the commissioner’s getting reimbursed for expenses related to traveling to Annapolis and for driving costs for getting around the county, but I’m not sure that sort of travel ads up to this much in one year.

Linked below are every single operating budget request for the Cecil County 2011 fiscal year. I’m only one man, so I am making a call to all Cecil County residents to pick one of the budgets below, and review it line by line.Whether you’re a Democrat or a Republican probably doesn’t matter–I think most adults can recognize excessive spending when they see it (whether you believe the County should or should not be spending it…).