CHAPTER 83
S.P. 602 - L.D. 1725
An Act to Allow the Towns of Wells and Ogunquit to Withdraw from Their Community School District
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. P&SL 1979, c. 45, §6, 7th ¶ is repealed and the following enacted in its place:
The total expenses of the Wells-Ogunquit Community School District for kindergarten to grade 12, including operational, program, maintenance, debt retirement and interest costs, must be apportioned between the participating Town of Ogunquit and Town of Wells according to the following formula.
1. For fiscal year 2000-01, 88.9% of the total will be assessed between the towns in the same proportion as the state valuation of each town, for the year preceding the year to which the budget applies, bears to the total valuation for both towns and 11.1% of the total will be assessed between the towns in the same proportion as the average number of resident pupils of each town, as counted under the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 20-A, sections 5104-A and 6004 who are educated at public expense in kindergarten to grade 12 on April 1st and October 1st of the year preceding the year to which the budget applies, bears to the total number of resident pupils for both towns.
2. For fiscal year 2001-02, 77.8% of the total will be assessed between the towns in the same proportion as the state valuation of each town, for the year preceding the year to which the budget applies, bears to the total valuation for both towns and 22.2% of the total will be assessed in the same proportion as the average number of resident pupils of each town, as provided in subsection 1 for the year preceding the year to which the budget applies, bears to the total number of resident pupils for both towns.
3. For fiscal year 2002-03 and subsequent fiscal years, 66.7% of the total will be assessed between the towns in the same proportion as the state valuation of each town, for the year preceding the year to which the budget applies, bears to the total valuation for both towns and 33.3% of the total will be assessed in the same proportion as the average number of resident pupils of each town, as provided in subsection 1 for the year preceding the year to which the budget applies, bears to the total number of resident pupils for both towns.
Notwithstanding subsection 3, after fiscal year 2002-03, the towns may agree to change the formula for apportionment of kindergarten to grade 12 educational costs by separate majority vote in each town.
A withdrawal from the community school district must be authorized by special act of the Legislature upon such terms as are contained in that special act.
Effective August 11, 2000, unless otherwise indicated.
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