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that has been delayed during the 2006-2007 biennium by using bond | | anticipation notes to have the interest costs of the temporary | | borrowing included in the school unit's state and local allocation | | as a debt service cost or as an adjustment to the unit's monthly | | subsidy payments. It also decreases funding for special education | | by $1,500,000 in fiscal year 2006-07 for those school | | administrative units that are minimum receivers of state subsidy by | | holding the transition percentage for special education costs at | | 84% for fiscal year 2006-07. This Part decreases funding for | | school bus purchases by $3,200,000 in fiscal year 2006-07. |
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| | | Finally, Part I provides that the Department of Education is | | responsible for capturing the maximum federal reimbursement to | | local school districts for school-based rehabilitation, day | | treatment and targeted case management services beginning in | | January 2006 and deappropriates $2,500,000 from the General | | Purpose Aid for Local Schools program in fiscal year 2006-07 for | | the savings to local districts. |
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| | | Part J decreases General Fund appropriations to the Department | | of Education for programs other than General Purpose Aid for | | Local Schools. |
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| | | Part K reduces funding by $1,402,250 in fiscal year 2005-06 | | and $1,404,150 in fiscal year 2006-07 to the State's higher | | education institutions. |
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| | | This Part also authorizes the University of Maine System to |
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| | | use up to the first $1,000,000 of distribution from the gross | | slot machine revenue in fiscal year 2006-07 to support graduate | | student stipends for biomedical scholarships. |
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| | | Part L deappropriates $287,306 in fiscal year 2005-06 and | | $281,694 in fiscal year 2006-07 to the Department of Economic and | | Community Development through reductions in funding to the | | following: the Eastern Maine Development Corporation, the | | Somerset County Economic Development Corporation, the Maine Small | | Business Development Centers, the sponsorship of the Maine Public | | Broadcasting Corporation's "Made in Maine" program, the Office of | | Business Development's contract with Marshall Communications, | | certain contract positions in Farmington, Eastport, Fort Kent and | | Houlton and the Maine Technology Institute. |
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