| This bill establishes a cost-sharing formula for the community |
| school district created in Private and Special Law 1993, chapter |
| 64. It provides that beginning July 1, 2005, the community |
| school district shall share its costs, including additional local |
| funds, among the member municipalities in proportion to each |
| municipality's required contribution to the total cost of funding |
| education as described in the Essential Programs and Services |
| Funding Act. It also provides that the cost-sharing formula |
| applicable to the community school district's additional local |
| funds may be amended pursuant to the Maine Revised Statutes, |
| Title 20-A, section 1704. |