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County opens 2027 budget work session as speaker cites $1.5 billion state shortfall
Summary
An unidentified St. Mary's County commissioner opened the first 2027 budget work session and warned Maryland faces a $1,500,000,000 shortfall, prompting the county to plan careful reviews of local services and potential state cost-shifts. No formal votes were recorded in the remarks.
An unidentified St. Mary's County commissioner opened the first of the county's 2027 budget work sessions and said the county must prepare for tightened finances after citing a state shortfall.
"We have a 1,500,000,000.0, that's billion with a b, shortfall in Maryland," the Unidentified Commissioner said, describing the scale of the fiscal challenge facing the state and, by extension, local governments. The commissioner said the county will need to "look very…
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