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officers. The chair of the municipal service district officers
shall call a meeting of the committee within 30 days of the
filing of the notice of the vote in subsection 3. The chair
shall open the meeting by presiding over the election of a
chair of the committee. The responsibility for the preparation
of the agreement rests with the committee.__The committee may
draw upon the resources of the municipal service district for
information not readily available at the local level and may
employ competent advisors within the fiscal limit authorized
by the voters. The agreement must be submitted to the
municipal service district officers within 90 days after the
committee is formed. Extensions of time may be granted by the
municipal service district officers at the request of the
committee.

 
B.__The agreement must address the provision of educational
services for all students in the school management unit and
other related matters in accordance with Title 20-A, section
1403, subsection 4.__The agreement must provide that during
the first year following the dissolution, students may
attend the school they would have attended if the unit had
not dissolved. The allowable tuition rate for students sent
from one municipality to another in the former school
management unit must be determined under Title 20-A, section
5805, subsection 1, except that it is not subject to the
state per pupil average limitation in Title 20-A, section
5805, subsection 2.

 
C.__The agreement must contain any terms necessary to
effectuate an equitable division of the property, including
but not limited to that of the school management unit, among
the participating municipalities represented by the
committee and transfer title of the property to one or more
municipalities following dissolution, except that the school
management unit's educational program may not be disrupted
solely because of the transfer of any given property before
it may complete the transfer.

 
D.__The agreement must contain any terms necessary to
allocate equitably among the participating municipalities
all contractual obligations and other liabilities, as
appropriate.

 
E.__The agreement must provide that the municipal service
district remain intact for the purpose of securing and retiring
any outstanding indebtedness, except that the dissolution
agreement may provide for alternate means for retiring
outstanding indebtedness.__For purposes of this paragraph, the
term "outstanding indebtedness" means bonds or notes issued by
the municipal service district officers,


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