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LR 831
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subsection 10, will review, prioritize among and award applications
for competitive grants made pursuant to subsections 6 to 9:

 
A.__One representative of the State Planning Office;

 
B.__One representative of the Department of Economic and
Community Development;

 
C.__One representative of the Maine Municipal Bond Bank or a
private financial institution with expertise in the areas of
business finance, commercial loans and return on investment;

 
D.__One representative representing providers of
governmental services on a regional basis; and

 
E.__Three representatives of municipal government
recommended by the Maine Municipal Association who formerly
served as a municipal officer or the chief administrative
official of a municipality, with one representing a rural
community with a population of less than 4,000 inhabitants,
one representing a suburban community with a population of
4,000 to 15,000 inhabitants and one representing a service
center community with a population greater than 15,000
inhabitants.

 
The Governor's appointments must be characterized by broad
geographic representation.

 
6. Competitive grants; standard of qualification. In making
competitive awards from the fund, and with respect to the
jurisdictions throughout the several local or regional
governments that are submitting each application for a grant to
fund or partially fund an efficiency project, the review panel
established in subsection 5 must identify:

 
A.__The nature, scope and timing of the entire efficiency
project, including all proposed programmatic and governance
changes, system restructurings, employment reconfigurations
and capital or infrastructure investments;

 
B.__The total cost of the efficiency project, including the
dollar value of the grant request and all other funds and
in-kind services contributed by the applicants and other
sources;

 
C.__The annual cost of providing the targeted services
throughout the jurisdictions represented by the several
applicants for each of the 10 years before the
implementation of the efficiency project;


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