Government headline 

County Council Cancels Budget Worksession

The Frederick County Council decided yesterday to cancel its Friday, April 24, budget worksession. The consultants from Clifton, Larson, Allen LLP who made a presentation Wednesday before the council will review additional budget matters with the county’s Budget Office. The County Council will then schedule another public budget worksession in the near future with the consultants. The budget PowerPoint and exhibits presented to the council Wednesday are available at  www.FrederickCountyMD.gov/council. For additional information, contact Council Chief of Staff Ragen Cherney at 301-600-1049 or via e-mail at rcherney@FrederickCountyMD.gov.

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Glade Valley Government headline 

County Council Schedules Budget Hearings

In accordance to Frederick County’s Charter, after the County Executive submits the proposed budget to the council, the council must hold a public hearing on the budget. After the hearing, the council may reduce or delete items in the proposed budget, but may not add items to it or increase any proposed expenditure, except for increases above the Board of Education’s Maintenance of Effort requirement. The council must adopt the budget by May 25 or the executive’s proposed budget becomes law. County Executive Jan Gardner presented her first budget proposal…

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Education Government headline 

FCPS Budget Twitter Chat

Frederick County Public School Superintendent, Dr. Alban, and staff will be answering questions about the school system’s budget and the future of our schools on Twitter tonight. From 7:00 until 8:00 p.m., you can tweet your questions using the #FCPSBudget.  The FCPS Twitter account, @FCPSMaryland, will be used to answer questions and ask questions of the public. If you do not have a Twitter account, you can still follow the conversation in two ways: Visit www.twubs.com/fcpsbudget and watch the Twitter Chat discussion in real time or review it later. See…

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