budgets and budgeting
- Aberdeen's long-awaited approval for a room tax may have hit another snag, as Maryland Attorney General Doug Gansler just questioned the legality of the tax's approval method.
- The Perryville mayor and town commissioners unanimously approved an ordinance for the town's $7.4 million budget for the 2014-2015 fiscal year Tuesday night.
- Members of the Anne Arundel County Council are calling on County Executive Laura Neuman to restore $250,000 in grants to nonprofit organizations and explain how she made her funding decisions.
- With little fanfare, the Aberdeen City Council passed its $14.08 million budget for the next fiscal year that is lower than this fiscal year's and does not include a property tax rate or water and sewer rate increase
- David R. Brinkley has no problem with being called an establishment Republican. He's the party's leader in the Maryland Senate, a master of the state budget process and a pragmatist who is adept at bringing tax dollars back from Democratic-dominated Annapolis to Frederick and Carroll counties.
- David R. Brinkley has no problem with being called an establishment Republican. He's the party's leader in the Maryland Senate, a master of the state budget process and a pragmatist who is adept at bringing tax dollars back from Democratic-dominated Annapolis to Frederick and Carroll counties.
- The Harford County Council passed a $627.5 million operating budget and $107.3 million capital program for 2015 on Tuesday night, drawing renewed complaints from residents about underfunding teachers, sheriff's deputies and other employees.
- The Bel Air Board of Town Commissioners unanimously gave its final approval Tuesday to the town's $15,967,773 budget for the 2015 fiscal year which begins July 1.
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- The full-service station, which will supplement the department's Southern District station in North Laurel and Northern District station – which is also the headquarters – in Ellicott City, will likely be located somewhere in Columbia, according to police chief Bill McMahon
- Laurel mayor keeps property tax flast for fiscal 2015 budget
- Fully funding school gifted and talented programs is an excellent investment in Baltimore's future, but it also must be sustainable
- The Anne Arundel County Schools System will launch its next school year on Aug. 25, but parents seeking to enroll their children in the district's new contract school should also pay attention to another date – June 18.
- The Baltimore school board voted Tuesday to fully fund gifted programs that were originally slated for cuts next year and to tap its rainy-day fund to stave off reductions at the central office.
- Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony W. Batts told City Council members Wednesday that 212 vacant officer positions will be eliminated from the force, marking the first significant reduction in the ranks in decades.
- The Baltimore school board will vote Tuesday on a $1.3 billion budget that has drawn backlash from schools and lawmakers for its cuts to programs and has led the board to consider a possible overhaul of the district's funding formula as some high schools face up to $450,000 in cuts.
- The Baltimore school board will vote Tuesday on a $1.3 billion budget that has drawn backlash from schools and lawmakers for its cuts to programs and has led the board to consider a possible overhaul of the district's funding formula as some high schools face up to $450,000 in cuts.
- Baltimore County Council approves annual budget, which emphasizes school construction.
- There is widespread belief among teachers and principals that traditional public schools are subsidizing charters. This should trouble parents in traditional schools, especially parents helping School Family Councils make ends meet during budget season. It should trouble responsible charter parents and staff who do not want to succeed at the expense of children attending a traditional school.
- The City of Aberdeen's proposed budget for the 2014-2015 fiscal year prompted few comments during a public hearing Monday, although two speakers addressed concerns over having the best possible lifesaving equipment at the Aberdeen Family Swim Center.
- The Howard County Council on Wednesday passed capital and operating budgets for fiscal year 2015 that together totaled about $1.29 billion and provided funding for a plan that will accelerate the renovation and hand-over of Columbia¿s Merriweather Post Pavilion
- Members of the Harford County Council have defeated a move that might have cut funding for a new library building in Havre de Grace to make money available to give raises to government employees.
- Public library advocates are questioning a Baltimore County plan to transfer library information-technology services to the county government's IT office, saying it could set a precedent that threatens autonomy.
- The trustees, however, will never be able to make the fine balance called for without first having a much firmer grasp of the details of where the money is coming from, and where it is being spent.
- Maryland's gubernatorial candidates are employing plenty of faux-specificity about how they will pay for the tax cuts and new spending they're proposing.
- Six seats on the Harford County Board of Education will be filled in this year's election, the first time that's happened since state legislation passed five years ago setting up a board with six elected and three appointed members.
- The chairman of Harford Community College's Board of Trustees put things bluntly Tuesday evening: the college has a "structural deficit" in the gap between revenues and expenses that it must cover with funds from its cash reserves, and college officials must take strong measures to get rid of that deficit.
- Funding for mental health services, downtown Columbia's Inner Arbor and resources for the county's foreign-born residents were the main talking points at the Howard County Council's last budget hearing Wednesday.
- Democrat Sen. Jim Brochin, representing the 42nd District, Democrat Connie DeJuliis, of Glen Arm,who represented Dundalk in the House of Delegates for one term in the 1990s, and Republican Tim Robinson, a physician from Timonium, for a debate at the Idlewylde Community Center last week.
- A resolution seeking to restore and preserve funding for two programs that target the city's gifted students was introduced in the City Council on Monday, as city political leaders described a disinvestment in the city schools' top achievers.
- The recent controversial decision by Harford Community College officials to raise fees for adult baseball and softball leagues in order to make the operations of the campus playing fields self-sufficient has become a reflection of budget issues that the college has been dealing with in recent years.
- For Rick R. Davis of Bel Air, life is a balancing act.