By Morita Bruce
Ready to see your taxes raised or your county services slashed again? What’s fair about that?
Background: In October, there was a great deal of controversy about canceling the school impact fee. This is the fee paid by people who purchase new homes, and it pays for a portion (roughly one-fifth) of the cost of building new schools to serve the new students arriving from the newly-built homes. That bill failed. Now Bill 09-37 proposes to cut the fee rather than eliminate it, which still hurts current Harford residents by raising our taxes and/or cutting existing services.
Here’s my view:
Bill 09-37 will slash the school impact fee by 27%. I oppose this unfair bill. It subsidizes new-home buyers by unfairly increasing taxes on current residents or by cutting services (such as recreational facilities, libraries, etc.)
This bill unfairly hurts current residents in the vain ...Continue Reading
Tags: bill, council, development, impact fee, tax
At the request of Harford County Councilman Dion Guthrie and several Edgewood residents, the Edgewood Community Council has called a special meeting to discuss Bill No. 09-36, Acquisition of Prologis Park, and it’s potential impact to the Edgewood Community.
WHAT: ECC SPECIAL MEETING
WHERE: Harford County Council Chambers, 212 South Bond Street, Bel Air, MD 21014: 410.638.3343 or 410.879.2000
WHEN: Wednesday Nov 18, 2009
TIME: 7:00 PM
AGENDA ITEM: Bill No. 09-36, Acquisition of Prologis Park, Edgewood/Waste Incinerator.
You can read the full bill on the county website, but here is some pertinent text from the document:
AN ACT to provide the County Executive, or his designee, with the authorization to execute, on behalf of Harford County, Maryland, an Intergovernmental Installment Purchase Agreement with Maryland Environmental Service, in substantially the form attached hereto, to purchase a parcel of real property, known as Prologis Park, Edgewood, Maryland 21040, containing approximately 134.210 acres, more or ...Continue Reading
Tags: bill, county council, edgewood, Guthrie, incinerator, MES
Brian Matusz.
Who? What about Justin Smoak? What about James Beckham? Was Yonder Alonso still on the board?? These are the questions that rang out by the Oriole faithful when Andy MacPhail and company chose the lefty out of the University of San Diego.
But how does this translate to the future of the Oriole franchise? Let’s take a deeper look.
Was this the right choice? Only time will tell. This is the blueprint that MacPhail follows when he builds a team from the ground up. Trust MacPhail. His track record shows he prefers to stockpile young starting pitchers and then add the free agent slugger.
Tags: Baltimore, baseball, bill, macphail, Orioles, sports
