Resolve, To Provide $1,000,000 to the Fund for the Efficient Delivery of Local and Regional Services

Sec. 1. Transfer. Resolved: That the State Controller shall transfer on October 10, 2011 $1,000,000 from the Local Government Fund established in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 30-A, section 5681, subsection 3 to the Fund for the Efficient Delivery of Local and Regional Services established in Title 30-A, section 6202. This transfer must be from the amounts transferred to the Local Government Fund for distribution to municipalities and may not affect the calculation of or reduce the amounts distributed from the Disproportionate Tax Burden Fund pursuant to Title 30-A, section 5681, subsection 4-B.

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This resolve transfers $1,000,000 to the Fund for the Efficient Delivery of Local and Regional Services on a one-time basis. This fund, which was established to assist those municipalities that collaborate with other municipalities, counties or state agencies to obtain savings in the cost of delivering local and regional governmental services, was previously funded by transfers based on 2% of the funds set aside for state-municipal revenue sharing. That funding mechanism was repealed by the 124th Legislature in Public Law 2009, chapter 213, Part S, section 8. This one-time transfer will reduce the amounts set aside in the Local Government Fund for distribution to municipalities in October 2011 under the main revenue sharing distribution and will not affect amounts to be distributed from the Disproportionate Tax Burden Fund, commonly referred to as "Revenue Sharing II."