NORTH EAST â The Cecil County Public Schools Board of Education approved a resolution to award a $2.2 million contract to Grimm & Parker Architects of Beltsville, Md., to design the new North East Middle School.
The new school will be built adjacent to the current North East high school building on Irishtown Road. If the county and state agree to fund the project this fall, construction will begin as early as July 2022, with students using the building as early as the 2024-25 school year.
The current middle school was first built in 1932 as a high school, before becoming a middle school in 1972.
Danielle Hornberger
ELKTON â County Executive Danielle Hornbergerâs fiscal year 2022 budget proposal calls for a 1.3 percent property tax cut.
If approved, it would be the first reduction in property taxes since the charter government was established in 2010.
âWhen I was talking to community members, the number one issue people struggled with was high taxes,â said Hornberger, who made tax cuts a cornerstone of her campaign in 2020.
The tax reduction comes with a decrease in the year-over-year growth of the general fund. General fund expenditures are set to increase by 1.6 percent in 2022 compared to the 2021 budgetâs 2.4 percent increase. Hornberger said this reduction does not represent a decrease in services as much as reduction in spending on capital projects, as well as the consolidation of contracts to be more efficient and enable better use of federal funds.
ELKTON â County Executive Danielle Hornbergerâs fiscal year 2022 budget proposal calls for a 1.3 percent property tax cut.
If approved, it would be the first reduction in property taxes since the charter government was established in 2010.
âWhen I was talking to community members, the number one issue people struggled with was high taxes,â said Hornberger, who made tax cuts a cornerstone of her campaign in 2020.
The tax reduction comes with a decrease in the year-over-year growth of the general fund. General fund expenditures are set to increase by 1.6 percent in 2022 compared to the 2021 budgetâs 2.4 percent increase. Hornberger said this reduction does not represent a decrease in services as much as reduction in spending on capital projects, as well as the consolidation of contracts to be more efficient and enable better use of federal funds.