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LR 328
Item 1

 
A. At least 7 days before the initial meeting of the
legislative body responsible for adopting a budget, the school
administrative unit shall provide a detailed budget document
to that legislative body and to any person who requests one
and resides within the geographic area served by the school
administrative unit.

 
B. Notwithstanding a provision of law or charter to the
contrary, school administrative units may adopt an annual
budget prior to June 30th.__The school budgets for career
and technical education regions must be adopted on or before
August 1st.

 
C. Notwithstanding any municipal charter provision,
ordinance or other law to the contrary, if the level of
state subsidy for the next school year is not finalized in
accordance with this chapter before June 1st, the school
board may delay a school budget meeting otherwise required
to be held before July 1st to a date after July 1st. If a
school board elects to delay a school budget meeting under
this paragraph, the meeting must be held and the budget
approved within 30 days of the date the commissioner
notifies the school board of the amount allocated to the
school administrative unit under section 15689-B. When a
school budget meeting is delayed under this paragraph, the
school administrative unit may continue operation of the
unit at the same budget levels as were approved for the
previous year. Continued operation under the budget for the
previous year is limited to the time between July 1st and
the date the new budget goes into effect.

 
3.__Budget format. The following provisions apply to a budget
format.

 
A. Except as provided in subsection 4, the budget format is
that prescribed by a majority of the school board until an
article prescribing the school budget format is approved by
a majority of voters in an election in which the total vote
is at least 20% of the number of votes cast in the
municipality in the last gubernatorial election, or 200,
whichever is less.

 
B. The format of the school budget may be determined in
accordance with section 1306.

 
C. It is the intent of the Legislature that a school board
shall attempt to obtain public participation in the
development of the school budget format.


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