3.__Performance review; fund ineligibility and reimbursement.__ The commissioner shall determine, based on review of information submitted under subsection 1, paragraph E, whether the efficient school unit is continuing to meet the certification criteria under subsection 1 and whether the efficient school unit provided assistance in accordance with subsection 1, paragraph C.__If the commissioner determines that the efficient school unit did not continue to meet the criteria under subsection 1 or did not provide assistance in accordance with subsection 1, paragraph C, then the efficient school unit, upon notice of the commissioner's determination:

A.__Is ineligible for funding from the Fund for the Efficient Delivery of Education Services in the following fiscal year; and

B.__Shall, in the following fiscal year, reimburse the Fund for the Efficient Delivery of Education Services an amount equal to 1/2 of the amount it received from the Fund for the Efficient Delivery of Education Services during the prior fiscal year.

Annually and no later than September 1st, the commissioner shall notify the efficient school unit of the determination under this subsection.__If an efficient school unit does not demonstrate satisfaction of cost-efficiency criteria in accordance with rules made pursuant to section 3709, the efficient school unit is ineligible for assistance for funding from the Fund for the Efficient Delivery of Education Services in the following fiscal year.

§3707.__Financial incentives

1.__Regional school districts with student populations of 1,000 to 2,500.__Except as otherwise provided by section 3704, subsections 4 and 6, a regional school district that has an aggregate resident student population of 1,000 or more, as recorded by the department, on the date set under section 3704, subsection 3 for its initiation of operations and that has received final certification under section 3704, subsection 3 is entitled to receive:

A.__For 5 consecutive years, an increase in general purpose aid equivalent to 7.5% of the state share of the operating allocations for the school administrative units that combined to form the regional school district for the fiscal