| | | Sec. D-52. 20-A MRSA §15686, as amended by PL 2003, c. 712, §16, is | | further amended to read: |
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| | | §15686. Transition adjustment |
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| | | For each of the fiscal years described in section 15671, | | subsection 7, the commissioner shall establish a transition | | adjustment calculated to minimize the adverse fiscal impact that | | may be experienced by some municipalities as a result of the | | phase-in of this Act. The transition adjustment for a | | municipality must be directly related to the phase-in of | | essential programs and services and the local cost share | | expectation method under section 15671-A of determining the local | | contribution to the cost of funding essential programs and | | services. The amount of this adjustment must decline with each | | successive fiscal year, and the adjustments must end no later | than fiscal year 2009-10 |
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| | | 1.__Adjustment in fiscal year 2005-06.__A school | | administrative unit is eligible for a transition adjustment in | | fiscal year 2005-06 if the school administrative unit meets the | | following criteria. |
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| | | A.__The school administrative unit's state share of the | | total allocation, including the debt service adjustment | | pursuant to section__15689, subsection 2, and the minimum | | state share of its total allocation pursuant to section | | 15689, subsection 1 is less than the fiscal year 2004-05 | | state share of its total allocation, including the minimum | | state share of its total allocation pursuant to former | | section 15689, subsection 1 and the adjustment for | | geographic isolation pursuant to section 15612, subsection | | 2.__The state share adjustment is an amount equal to that | | difference less the losses due to reduced expenditures for | | buses, debt service, special education, gifted and talented | | education and vocational education. |
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| | | A school administrative unit that meets the criteria in paragraph | | A is eligible to receive no less than a 5% transition adjustment | | in fiscal year 2005-06 if the school administrative unit operates | | an elementary or secondary school and also has a student count of | | less than 1,000. |
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| | | A school administrative unit that meets the criteria in paragraph | | A is eligible to receive no less than a 2.5% transition | | adjustment in fiscal year 2005-06 if the school administrative | | unit operates an elementary or secondary school and also has a | | student count of more than 1,000. |
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