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Mako warns counties of looming state fiscal pressure and possible cost shifts affecting local budgets
Summary
Mako executive director delivered an annual briefing to Calvert County commissioners detailing state fiscal pressures, possible future cost shifts (including pension-related invoices to counties), education 'Blueprint' funding timing, and energy and housing challenges that may require local responses in coming years.
Michael Sanderson, executive director of the Maryland Association of Counties (Mako), and Mako president Jack Wilson briefed Calvert County commissioners on Oct. 7 about statewide policy trends the association expects to affect counties over the next two legislative cycles.
Sanderson said the state closed a multi‑billion dollar shortfall by combining new revenues and cost shifts, but he cautioned commissioners that a larger fiscal squeeze could reappear in FY 2028 when the state…
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