An Act To Reinstate the Fund for the Efficient Delivery of Local and Regional Services
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 30-A MRSA §5681, sub-§3, as amended by PL 2009, c. 213, Pt. S, §3 and affected by §16, is further amended to read:
3. Revenue-sharing funds. To strengthen the state-municipal fiscal relationship pursuant to the findings and objectives of subsection 1, there is established the Local Government Fund. To provide additional support for municipalities experiencing a higher-than-average property tax burden, there is established the Disproportionate Tax Burden Fund. 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, there is established the Fund for the Efficient Delivery of Local and Regional Services.
Sec. 2. 30-A MRSA §5681, sub-§5-D is enacted to read:
5-D. Fund for the Efficient Delivery of Local and Regional Services. For the months beginning on or after January 1, 2012 and before the distributions required by subsections 4-A and 4-B, 2% of all receipts transferred to the Local Government Fund each month pursuant to subsection 5 must be deposited in the Fund for the Efficient Delivery of Local and Regional Services, as established in subsection 3, and distributed to those municipalities that can demonstrate significant and sustainable savings in the cost of delivering local and regional governmental services through collaborative approaches to service delivery, enhanced regional delivery systems, the consolidation of administrative services, the creation of broad-based purchasing alliances or the execution of interlocal agreements.
SUMMARY
This bill reestablishes the Fund for the Efficient Delivery of Local and Regional Services originally established by Initiated Bill 2003, chapter 2 and eliminated in 2009.