City budget hearings reveal spending exceeds revenue by 12M
Frederick officials opened fiscal 1999 budgeting with expenditures of 58.46 million, 12.52 million above the 45.94 million in estimated revenue. Mayor Grimes urged department directors to cut requests to balance the five day process while Roelkey Myers proposed a 14.8 percent budget rise for recreation plus a park police officer position to improve quality of life.
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Frederick
Jim Grimes
Roelkey Myers
Myers
Recreation
Maryland Nears Tax Cut Package Toward $200 Million Return
Maryland lawmakers edge toward finalizing a tax reduction package that would return about $200 million to taxpayers this year. The plan includes a 5 percent cut in the state income tax for 1998 earnings, a rebate for low income workers, and a property tax cap mainly aiding elderly homeowners on fixed incomes. Supporters say the surplus from strong revenues allows a broader tax relief approach. some legislators oppose the cut.
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Annapolis
House
Senate
Maryland
Sheila Hixson
D-Montgomery
Ways and Means Committee
Hixson
Barbara Hoffman
Baltimore
Budget and Taxation Committee
Boys cut class trigger police standoff in Frederick
A group of area boys skipped school and crawled into a basement through a window at a Frederick Avenue residence. Police surrounded the house after a burglary in progress call and ordered the youths out. Four teens aged 15 to 17 surrendered while a 16 year old resident explained they had permission to be out of school.
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Frederick City
Frederick Avenue
Bryan Brown
Thomas Tokarz
Cheryl Kessler
Bob Kane
Maryland approves deal for health coverage to poor families
A compromise in Annapolis would extend government health insurance to about 60,000 children and pregnant women in impoverished Maryland families through HealthChoice with federal support. Families near the income limit face premiums, and workers offered private plans must participate. The plan includes $500,000 for the Maryland Health Care Foundation to study options and push private funding.
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Annapolis
Maryland
Parris Glendening
House
Senate
Glendening
Maryland Health Care Foundation
Michael Busch
Anne Arundel
Thomas Bramwell
Baltimore County
France
Top Frederick County officials face raises up to sixteen percent
County Manager William Dennis proposes a reclassification to lift directors and top administrators on the county pay scale. The plan, awaiting April 20 vote, could grant up to 16 percent for the Citizens Nursing Home administrator and 14 percent for Dennis himself, with other increases ranging from about 9 to 13 percent.
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Frederick
William Dennis
Mitch Hose
Hose
Dennis
Citizens Nursing Home
Planners Approve Johnsville Rodeo and Hotel Site
Frederick County Planning Commission granted conditional approval to plans for a Johnsville rodeo arena and a 101 room three story hotel on the Westview Corporate Campus. Protests earlier this year subsided with no opposition at the Wednesday meeting as seven site plans were reviewed. John L Williams Jr, a Union Bridge resident, intends to stage year round rodeo events on a 47 acre tract near Coppermine Road and Md 75 after four rodeos last summer. A county text amendment, approved in December, allows rodeos in an agricultural zone by special exception.
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Johnsville
Westview
Frederick County Planning Commission
John £. Williams Jr
Coppermine Road
MD. 75
Williams
Union Bridge
Twin Pastors Launch Harvest Wind Church This Sunday
Identical twin brothers Craig and Cary Moorman launch Harvest Wind, a new ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, with a 10am service at New Market Elementary School. They note the event marks the first time two people from the same parents lead a new EL church project and share a long dream of 22 years.
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Craig Moorman
Harvest Wind
Evangelical Lutheran Church
New Market
Moorman
Craig
Cary Moorman
Trinity Lutheran Seminary
Columbus
Ohio
ELC
Pastro Moorman
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