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Commissioners spar over Ocean Pines wastewater allocation plan; public budget hearing scheduled for evening
Summary
Tensions rose at the May 6 Worcester County Commissioners meeting over a proposed plan to spread a wastewater shortfall across all service areas; board members disagreed about what options were presented publicly and whether a particular approach had been endorsed.
A dispute among commissioners and between elected officials and county staff over how to allocate a projected shortfall in the Ocean Pines wastewater enterprise surfaced during the May 6 meeting and prompted sharp public disagreement among board members.
Context: commissioners have been considering options to address anticipated enterprise fund deficits in wastewater service areas. According to comments in the meeting, one proposal circulated for public discussion would spread the repayment of a projected shortfall across all service areas equally, regardless of whether a given service area contributed to that deficit. Some commissioners and community members have…
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