Municipal local

contribution

Town A ($amount)

Town B ($amount)

Town C ($amount)

School District

Total ($sum of above)

(2)__The following statement must accompany the article in subparagraph (1).__"Explanation: The school administrative unit's contribution to the total cost of funding public education from kindergarten to grade 12 as described in the Essential Programs and Services Funding Act is the amount of money determined by state law to be the minimum amount that each municipality must raise in order to receive the full amount of state dollars."

C.__The state share of the total cost of funding public education from kindergarten to grade 12 as described in section 15688, excluding state-funded debt service for each school administrative unit, is limited to the same proportion as the local school administrative unit raises of its local share of the school administrative unit's contribution to the total cost of funding public education from kindergarten to grade 12 as described in section 15688, excluding state-funded debt service.

2.__Non-state-funded debt service.__For each school administrative unit's contribution to debt service for non-state- funded major capital school construction projects or non-state- funded portions of major capital school construction projects, the legislative body of each school administrative unit may vote to raise and appropriate an amount up to the municipality's or district's annual payments for non-state-funded debt service.

A.__An article in substantially the following form must be used when a school administrative unit is considering the appropriation for debt service allocation for