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LR 2170
Item 1

 
(1)__"Article ....: To see what sum each municipality
will appropriate for 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 and to
see what sum each municipality will raise as each
municipality'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 in accordance with the Maine Revised
Statutes, Title 20-A, section 15688 (Recommends):

 
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 required contribution to the total cost of education as
described in section 15688, excluding state-funded debt
service costs.

 
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


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