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Amend the bill by inserting after the title and before the enacting clause the following:
‘ Mandate preamble. This measure requires one or more local units of government to expand or modify activities so as to necessitate additional expenditures from local revenues but does not provide funding for at least 90% of those expenditures. Pursuant to the Constitution of Maine, Article IX, Section 21, 2/3 of all of the members elected to each House have determined it necessary to enact this measure.’
Amend the bill in section 1 in §2505 in the first paragraph in the last line (page 1, line 5 in L.D.) by adding after the following: "chapter" the following: 'except when a majority of the municipal legislative body determines that it is unnecessary by a show of hands at the beginning of the meeting
 
SUMMARY
This amendment, which is the minority report of the committee, requires minutes of a municipal meeting to be kept unless a majority of the municipal legislative body determines that it is unnecessary by a show of hands at the beginning of the meeting. It also adds a mandate preamble.