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21-A.__Nonsubsidizable costs.__Nonsubsidizable costs are costs
that are not considered in the calculation of the total
allocation.__"Nonsubsidizable costs" includes the following:

 
A.__Community service costs;

 
B.__Major capital costs;

 
C.__Expenditures from all federal revenue sources, except
for amounts received under United States Public Law 81-874;

 
D.__Transportation costs not associated with transporting
students from home to school and back home each day; and

 
E.__Costs payable to the Maine State Retirement System under
Title 5, section 17154, subsections 10 and 11.

 
21-B.__Portable, temporary classroom space.__"Portable,
temporary classroom space" means one or more mobile or modular
buildings that are at least partially constructed off site and
that are designed to be moved to other sites with a minimum of
disassembly and reassembly.

 
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.


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