| | | Sec. C-6. Department of Administrative and Financial Services; lease-purchase | | authorization. Pursuant to the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 5, | | section 1587, the Department of Administrative and Financial | | Services, Office of the Chief Information Officer may enter into | | financing arrangements in fiscal years 2004-05, 2005-06 and 2006- | | 07 for the acquisition of a statewide accounting and purchasing | | system, including software, hardware and peripherals, and | | contractual services associated with the implementation and | | deployment of the system. The financing agreements may not exceed | | $10,000,000 in principal costs, and no financing arrangement may | | exceed 5 years in duration. The interest rate may not exceed 7%. | | The annual principal and interest costs must be paid from the | | appropriate line category allocations in the Information Services | | account. |
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| | | Sec. D-1. Transfer from unappropriated surplus at close of fiscal year 2004-05. | | Notwithstanding any other provision of law, at the close of | | fiscal year 2004-05 the State Controller shall transfer up to | | $8,122,000 available from the unappropriated surplus of the | | General Fund to the Baxter Compensation Authority account in the | | General Fund after all required deductions of appropriations, | | budgeted financial commitments and adjustments considered | | necessary by the State Controller have been made and as the next | | priority after the transfers required pursuant to the Maine | | Revised Statutes, Title 5, sections 1507, 1511, 1513 and 1517. |
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| | | Sec. D-2. Purpose. Transfers made to the Baxter Compensation | | Authority pursuant to this Part must be expended for claims of | | former students of the Governor Baxter School for the Deaf and | | the Maine School for the Deaf. |
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| | | Sec. D-3. Transfer. Notwithstanding the Maine Revised Statutes, | | Title 5, section 1585, or any other provision of law, the amount | | transferred pursuant to this Part is considered an adjustment to | | appropriations in fiscal year 2005-06. These funds may be | | allotted by financial order upon recommendation of the State | | Budget Officer and approval of the Governor. |
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| | | Sec. E-1. Maine Microenterprise Initiative Fund. Notwithstanding any other | | provision of law, $315,000 of the unencumbered balance forward in | | fiscal year 2003-04 in the Maine Microenterprise Initiative Fund | | account in the Department of |
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| | | Economic and Community Development lapses to the General Fund in | | fiscal year 2004-05. |
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