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PRIVATE & SPECIAL LAWS
First Special Session of the 122nd

CHAPTER 9
H.P. 947 - L.D. 1364

An Act To Establish Municipal Cost Components for Unorganized Territory Services To Be Rendered in Fiscal Year 2005-06

     Emergency preamble. Whereas, Acts 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,

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

     Sec. 1. 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 2005-06 is as follows:

Audit - Fiscal Administration          $118,207
Education                         11,916,245
Forest Fire Protection          160,000
Human Services - General Assistance          72,250
Property Tax Assessment - Operations          672,688
Maine Land Use Regulation Commission -
Operations                    350,332

TOTAL STATE AGENCIES          $13,289,722
County Reimbursements for Services:

     Aroostook                    $676,752

     Franklin                    600,716

     Hancock                    130,808

     Kennebec                    5,977

     Oxford                    408,363

     Penobscot                    722,554

     Piscataquis               724,671

     Somerset                    840,286

     Washington               499,615

TOTAL COUNTY SERVICES          $4,609,742

TOTAL REQUIREMENTS          $17,899,461
COMPUTATION OF ASSESSMENT
Requirements                    $17,899,461
Less Deductions:

     General -

      State Revenue Sharing          $290,000

      Homestead Reimbursement          100,000

      Miscellaneous Revenues          50,000

      Transfer from Undesignated

      Fund Balance               2,300,000

TOTAL                         $2,740,000

     Educational -

      Lands Reserve Trust          $100,000

      Tuition - Travel          250,000

      Miscellaneous          5,000

      Special - Teacher Retirement          200,000

TOTAL                         $555,000

TOTAL DEDUCTIONS          ($3,295,000)

TAX ASSESSMENT          $14,604,461

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

Effective May 12, 2005.

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