LD 300
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22. Per-pupil guarantee. "Per-pupil guarantee" means the total
amount of funds that is made available for each subsidizable pupil
representing the following cost components:

 
A. Salary and benefit costs for school level teaching
staff;

 
B. Salary and benefit costs for other identified school
level staff;

 
C. Designated costs for substitute teachers; and

 
D. Identified nonstaffing costs.

 
22-A.__Predicted per-pupil transportation costs.__"Predicted
per-pupil transportation costs" means the predicted
transportation costs for a school administrative unit based on
the number of resident pupils, the number of miles of Class 1 to
Class 5 roads in the school administrative unit and approved
adjustments.__Approved adjustments include a per mile rate equal
to the state average gross transportation operating costs per
mile driven for transportation associated with out-of-district
special education programs, up to 2 round trips per day for
vocational education programs, and adjustments for expenditures
for ferry services within a school administrative unit,
transportation of homeless children in accordance with section
5205 and transportation costs of island school administrative
units.

 
23. Property fiscal capacity. "Property fiscal capacity"
means the certified state valuation amount for the year prior to
the most recently certified state valuation.

 
24. Property weight. "Property weight" means a value between
zero and one that is used to adjust a municipality's ratio of
local per-pupil property fiscal capacity to the statewide per-
pupil property fiscal capacity. The income weight, as defined in
subsection 14, plus the property weight must total one.

 
25. School administrative staff. "School administrative
staff" means full-time equivalent public school principals and
assistant principals, as documented in the department's database.

 
26. School administrative unit's local contribution to EPS
per-pupil rate. "School administrative unit's local contribution
to the per-pupil guarantee EPS per-pupil rate" means the funds
that a school administrative unit provides for each subsidizable
pupil who resides in that unit.


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