Cecil County Spending Project

PDF file of the Cecil County MD 2013 proposed budget available for download and review.

Recently, the Cecil County Commissioners took a public stance against the shift of teacher pension costs from the state of Maryland to the counties. The first reaction of most would be to agree with this opinion and oppose expensive hand-me-downs from the state of Maryland. However, could this situation actually be a blessing in disguise for fiscal conservatives in this county?

01/03/12 of last month the Cecil County Commissioners voted unanimously to buy a farm for preservation purposes costing taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars — was this really what we want government to spend money on?  Cecil County Commissioners and County Executive candidates Tari Moore (who made the motion) and Diana Broomell (who seconded the motion) supported this as did Mullin, Dunn, and Hodge.  If our county had a regulatory and tax…

From the office of Congressman Andy Harris: Today, Rep. Andy Harris continued to voice his opposition to the largest toll hike in the state’s history. “Maryland families and job creators, particularly on the Eastern Shore, cannot afford another tax hike,” said Rep. Andy Harris. “Maryland doesn’t have a revenue problem – they simply want to raise tolls by hundreds of millions of dollars to fund transportation projects for the Washington,…

While reviewing information on the current Cecil County toll hikes at the Hatem Bridge I came across some interesting commentary from one of our elected officials on this issue a couple years ago.  You have to ask yourself whether these comments haven’t contributed to the sorry predicament we’re facing today.