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Hogan Budget to Take Back $372,000 from Casino ‘Impact Aid’ in Cecil County

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Governor Larry Hogan’s recently proposed Fiscal 2016 state budget would cut local impact aid to counties and communities where gambling casinos are located, including a $372,000 hit on Cecil County’s aid from the Hollywood Casino in Perryville. An analysis of the budget proposal by the General Assembly’s non-partisan Department of Legislative Services said that the budget proposal would re-direct over $3.8 million in Fiscal 2016 statewide from local casino impact aid to the state’s education trust fund, to which the casinos already contribute a share of their revenues. The shift in funds would enable Hogan to cut an equal amount of state general funds currently allocated to education. The aid cut would also affect the town of Perryville, which receives 35 percent of the impact aid generated by the Hollywood Casino under an agreement with the county government. So the proposed aid cut would diminish the county’s share by nearly $242,000 and the town’s share by over $130,000. The local impact aid is supposed to help counties and towns cope with costs associated with providing fire, police and emergency services as well as road improvements and other projects in the area of the casinos. In the current Fiscal 2015 budget, […]

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