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(4) For the 2008 property tax year, the full-value
education mill rate is the amount necessary to result
in a 46.0% local share in fiscal year 2008-09.

 
(5) For the 2009 property tax year, the full-value
education mill rate is the amount necessary to result
in a 45.0% local share in fiscal year 2009-10.

 
3. Exceeding maximum local cost share expectations; separate
article. Beginning with the 2005-2006 school budget, the
legislative body of a school administrative unit may adopt
property tax rates an additional local appropriation that exceed
exceeds the local cost share expectation established by section
15688, subsection 3 3-A, paragraph A only if that action is
approved in a separate article by a vote of the school
administrative unit's legislative body through the same process
that the school budget is approved in that school administrative
unit and in accordance with section 15690. If that additional
appropriation causes the school administrative unit to exceed the
maximum state and local spending target described in subsection
4, the requirements of subsection 5 apply.

 
4. Maximum state and local spending target.__The maximum state
and local spending target for a school administrative unit is the
sum of the following costs calculated by the commissioner for the
unit:

 
A.__The base total calculated pursuant to section 15683,
subsection 1 without the adjustment for transition targets
under section 15671, subsection 7, paragraph A;

 
B.__Other subsidizable costs described in section 15681-A;
and

 
C.__The debt service allocation pursuant to section__15683-
A.

 
The commissioner shall annually notify each school administrative
unit of its maximum state and local spending target.

 
5.__Exceeding maximum state and local spending target.__If the
sum of a school administrative unit's required local contribution
determined pursuant to section 15688, subsection 3-A plus the
state contribution as calculated pursuant to section 15688,
subsection 3-A, paragraph D plus any additional local amount
proposed to be raised pursuant to section 15690, subsection 3
exceeds the school administrative unit's maximum state and local
spending target established pursuant to subsection 4, the
following provisions govern approval of that additional amount.


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