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Amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting the following:
‘An Act To Establish Municipal Cost Components for Unorganized Territory Services To Be Rendered in Fiscal Year 2009-10 and To Make Other Changes Related to the Municipal Cost Components’
Amend the bill by inserting before section 1 the following:
‘Sec. 1. 5 MRSA §246, sub-§3, as amended by PL 2007, c. 636, §2, is further amended to read:
 
3. Legislation. The fiscal administrator shall prepare and submit legislation to the Legislature by March 1st, annually, providing for the requests made by counties and state agencies for services provided in the unorganized territory that are entitled to funding under Title 36, chapter 115. Legislation submitted pursuant to this subsection must also include a notation as to any tax enhancement programs that have been approved by the county commissioners. The administrator may not reject or change a budget submitted by a county or state agency without the approval of the county or agency making the request.’
Amend the bill by striking out all of sections 1 and 2 and inserting the following:
‘Sec. 1. Municipal cost components for services rendered. In accordance with the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 36, chapter 115, the Legislature determines that the net municipal cost component for services and reimbursements to be rendered in fiscal year 2009-10 is as follows:

Audit - Fiscal Administration			$206,711	
					
Education			13,856,450	
					
Forest Fire Protection			160,000	
					
Human Services - General Assistance			59,000	
					
Property Tax Assessment - Operations			824,349	
					
Maine Land Use Regulation Commission - Operations			487,977	
					
TOTAL STATE AGENCIES			$15,594,486	
					
County Reimbursements for Services:	
					
	Aroostook			$885,417	
	Franklin			564,825	
	Hancock			154,505	
	Kennebec			872	
	Oxford			480,525	
	Penobscot			885,380	
	Piscataquis			1,389,350	
	Somerset			888,306	
	Washington			762,597	
					
TOTAL COUNTY SERVICES		$6,011,777	
					
TOTAL REQUIREMENTS		$21,606,264	

 

COMPUTATION OF ASSESSMENT	
							
Requirements				$21,606,264	
							
Less Deductions:					
	General -					
		State Revenue Sharing	$265,000	
		Homestead Reimbursement	100,000	
		Miscellaneous Revenues	50,000	
							
TOTAL				$415,000	
							
	Educational -					
		Land Reserved Trust	$80,000	
		Tuition/Travel	250,000	
		Miscellaneous	5,000	
		Special - Teacher Retirement	200,000	
							
TOTAL				$535,000	
							
TOTAL DEDUCTIONS		$950,000	
							
TAX ASSESSMENT		$20,656,264	
 
Sec. 2. Increase in growth limitation. Pursuant to the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 36, section 1611, subsection 3, paragraph B, the Legislature intends by this Act to exceed the municipal cost component growth limitation for the state component by $1,475,109 and to increase the municipal cost component growth limitation for the state component by the remainder of the amount provided in this Act.’
Amend the bill by relettering or renumbering any nonconsecutive Part letter or section number to read consecutively.
 
SUMMARY
This amendment increases the municipal cost components for education and the Maine Land Use Regulation Commission - Operations to account for changes made in other legislation. The amendment also expresses the intent of the Legislature to extend the growth limitation for the state component of the municipal cost component by $1,475,109 and to increase the growth limitation for the state component of the municipal cost component by the remainder required. In addition, this amendment strikes from the bill the notation regarding approved tax enhancement programs and eliminates the language in the statutes that requires such notations.