125th MAINE LEGISLATURE
		LD 1910		LR 2881(03)
	An Act To Allow the Town of Fort Kent To Create a Downtown Tax Increment Financing District Using the Current Assessed Value of the Downtown
	Fiscal Note for House Amendment "   " to Committee Amendment "   "
	Sponsor: Rep. Edgecomb of Caribou
	Fiscal Note Required: Yes
Fiscal Note
State Mandate - Unfunded Current biennium cost increase - Budget Stabilization Fund
State Mandates
	Required Activity				Unit Affected	Local Cost
	Requires the Town of Fort Kent to submit a request for a reduction in its state valuation pursuant to Title 36, section 208-A.				Fort Kent	Insignificant limited scope
	The required local activities in this bill may represent a State mandate pursuant to the Constitution of Maine.  Unless General Fund appropriations are provided to fund at least 90% of the additional costs or a Mandate Preamble is amended to the bill and two-thirds of the members of each House vote to exempt this mandate from the funding requirement, the municipality may not be required to implement these changes.
Fiscal Detail and Notes
	This amendment requires the Town of Fort Kent to request a reduction in its state valuation for the purpose of calculating the local share of education funding and municipal revenue sharing for fiscal year 2012-13 due to the sudden and severe disruption in its valuation caused by a fire in its downtown.  The State Tax Assessor will calculate a new state valuation and provide it to the Commissioner of Education and the State Treasurer who will determine new amounts to be distributed to the Town.
	Any new amounts of education subsidy to be distributed to the Town of Fort Kent will come from a transfer from the Budget Stabilization Fund to the General Purpose Aid for Local Schools program within the Department of Education.  Any new amounts of revenue sharing to be distributed to the Town will come from a reduction in the distribution to all other municipalities.