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Southern Maryland Newspapers reports:
The Charles County commissioners signed off on a balanced budget last week less than a day after hearing a few dozen people Wednesday night give their opinions on how the county should spend its money or where that money should come from.
Thursday morning the commissioners approved the fiscal 2011 budget and later …

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La Plata, MD – May 18, 2010 — Candice Quinn Kelly, candidate for President of the Charles County Board of Commissioners, issued a 12 point economic development plan for Charles County today. The plan is being offered just days after news that the current Board of County Commissioners eliminated the Economic …

Southern Maryland Newspapers reports:
Commissioners outsource economic development
A combination of full-time, part-time and reduced-hour Charles County employees was handed pink slips Thursday and the economic development department will be outsourced as a result of a $4.6 million budget gap that needed to be closed, according to a county press release sent late Thursday afternoon.
According to county …

Southern Maryland Newspapers reports:
Teachers asked the Charles County commissioners Wednesday to cut the bull.
The commissioners held a public hearing on the fiscal 2011 county budget Wednesday night and with knowledge that the commissioners proposed to fund the school system at maintenance of effort — a law requiring counties to fund school systems at the level …

Southern Maryland Newspapers reports:
Former commissioner announces run
Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010
By MEREDITH SOMERS
Staff writer
Promising to follow governing fundamentals and guaranteeing to use taxpayer dollars as responsibly as she can, Candice Quinn Kelly announced Monday night that she is joining the race for the Charles County commissioner president’s seat.
Currently only Jim Thompson (R) has filed for the …