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Century High Schools Jacob Harrison and South Carroll High Schools Alena Hedden sample goat cheeseuiche during French Day at McDaniel College in Westminster Tuesday.

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BY MEGAN MCKEEVERTIMES STAFF WRITER

Alena Hedden loaded up a plate with rice,goat cheese quiche and French bread.Ive got thirds of almost everything, the

7-year-old senior at South Carroll High Schooloked. I could eat

this every day.Hedden was one

of more than 200high school stu-dents who kickedoff Fat Tuesdaywith a traditional

rench celebrationat McDaniel Col-lege.

The fourth an-nual French Dayhosted students enrolled in various levels of

rench at Carroll and Washington county highschools. Some students in attendance had onlybeen taking French for a month, said McDaniel

rench professor Martine Motard-Noar.Memory of African Culture performed during French Day at Mc-Daniel College in Westminster Tuesday.

BY CHRISTIAN ALEXANDERSENTIMES STAFF WRITER

Changes to the recommended Fiscal Year 201Budget are expected to come from the new, five-member Carroll County Board of Commissionersas it meets with agencies in the upcoming weeksto discuss the proposal.

Director of Management and Budget Ted Zaleskideveloped the recommended budget and theFY12-17 plan, both of which give commissioners aprojection of revenues and expenditures.

Zaleski told commissioners Tuesday that he an-ticipates the operating budget for FY12 will be$354.3 million, approximately $5.3 million more

than FY11 budget.According to the recommended FY12 budget, 85

of 104 agency budgets are either flat or smallethan FY11. Commissioner Doug Howard, R-Dis-trict 5, said the board has already surveyed countyagencies to determine possible cost savings intheir operations.

The board expects to have a few challenges withthe budget, Howard said. Its important, he said,that the board lowers overall spending while alsotrying to provide residents with tax relief.

The next challenge is to dig into this stuff andsee where we have some flexibility, Howard said.We have an excellent starting point but I alsothink that we want to go line-by-line through thisstuff.

While revenues from property and recordationtaxes are expected to be lower than FY11, Zaleski

said he anticipates revenues from income taxes,interest and other funding sources will be highein FY12.

The board has until May 24 to pass the budget.

BY CAROLINE HAILEYTIMES STAFF WRITER

After hearing complaints fromesidents about town sidewalksot being cleared after snow-

storms, the Sykesville TownCouncil is considering an ordi-nance that would require resi-dents to maintain the sidewalkson their property by clearingthem of snow and also repairing

them when necessary.While the city of Westminster

and many towns in the county al-ready have similar language intheir codes, Sykesville is juststarting to consider it after hear-ing that some children wereforced to walk in the streets to getto their bus stops when sidewalkshadnt been cleared of snow afterrecent snowstorms, according toMayor Mike Miller.

Because this was mountinginto a safety issue, it seemed rea-sonable to make an ordinancestating that residents are respon-sible for snow removal withinsome time period, Miller said.

The proposed ordinance statesthat residents can be cited if theirsidewalks arent cleared of snowwithin 24 hours of the end of asnowstorm.

If they fail to remove the snow

within 24 hours of receiving thecitation, the town has the powerto remove the snow and ice itselfand charge the resident for thework, according to the proposedordinance.

The proposed ordinance alsogives the town the ability to deem asidewalk in question as unsafe, re-quiring the owner of the property

Police investigate bus incident

BY RYAN MARSHALLTIMES STAFF WRITER

Police and officials fromCarroll County PublicSchools are investigating al-legations that a North Car-

oll Middle School student

was injured when a schoolbus slid on some ice at theboys bus stop Mondaymorning.

Andrew Binks said his sonAustin, 11, was standing athis bus stop on Back WoodsRoad around 7 a.m. Monday

when the school bus slid onsome ice and hit him.

Binks said his son initiallythought he was all right andgot on the bus, but then wentto the nurses office when hegot to school and com-plained that his arm hurt.

He then went to the doc-tors office and the hospitalto be treated for a brokenarm, Binks said.

Maryland State Police areinvestigating an allegationthat the bus struck the boy,but the incident remainedunder investigation Tuesday

What: Public hearing on sidewalk ordinance

When: 7 p.m. Monday

Where: Town Hall, 7547 Main St., Sykesville

Call: 410-795-8959

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Please see Budget, A8

Schools look into allegations student was struck by vehicle

Work sessions to be heldbefore May 24 deadline

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Proposal would require residents to clear snow, make repairs

Sykesville council to consider sidewalk ordinance

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