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(2) A member municipality's local contribution
pursuant to the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 20-A,
section 15688 is 5% greater than that municipality's
local share would have been under its existing local
cost-sharing formula.

 
B. A school administrative district or community school
district that meets the eligibility criteria in paragraph A
must receive a transition adjustment to the state
contribution equal to the following.

 
(1) For each municipality in the district that meets
the eligibility criteria in paragraph A, the sum of
each municipality's special education allocation as
determined in paragraph D multiplied by 0.25.

 
C. A school administrative district or community school
district that meets the eligibility criteria in paragraph A
must have its local contribution adjusted as follows.

 
(1) For each municipality in the district that meets
the eligibility criteria in paragraph A, the
municipality's local contribution as determined
pursuant to Title 20-A, section 15688 must be reduced
by an amount equal to the municipality's special
education allocation as determined in paragraph D
multiplied by 0.25.

 
D. Each member municipality's special education allocation
is the special education allocation pursuant to Title 20-A,
section 15681-A, subsection 2 for the district multiplied by
the percentage of calendar year resident pupils in each
municipality.

 
This section is repealed June 30, 2006.

 
Sec. 2. Method of sharing total costs in School Administrative District No. 71; transition
provision. Notwithstanding the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 20-A,
section 15688, subsection 3-A, the local contribution to the
total cost of funding public education from kindergarten to grade
12 for each member municipality in School Administrative District
No. 71 is subject to the following transition provisions for
fiscal year 2005-06 to fiscal year 2008-09 and future years. For
each of these fiscal years, School Administrative District No. 71
shall calculate the local contribution for each member
municipality in the school district as follows.

 
1. For fiscal year 2005-06, 50% of the local contribution for
each municipality must be based on property fiscal capacity


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