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

Emergency preamble. Whereas,  acts and resolves of the Legislature do not become effective until 90 days after adjournment unless enacted as emergencies; and

Whereas,  prompt determination and certification of the municipal cost components in the Unorganized Territory Tax District are necessary to the establishment of a mill rate and the levy of the Unorganized Territory Educational and Services Tax; and

Whereas,  in the judgment of the Legislature, these facts create an emergency within the meaning of the Constitution of Maine and require the following legislation as immediately necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health and safety; now, therefore,

Sec. 1. 5 MRSA §246, sub-§3,  as amended by PL 2007, c. 636, §2, is further amended to read:

Sec. 2. 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				13,857,261
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				$15,595,298
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				$21,607,075

COMPUTATION OF ASSESSMENT
Requirements						$21,607,075
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						$20,657,075

Sec. 3. 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.

Emergency clause. In view of the emergency cited in the preamble, this legislation takes effect when approved.