Resolve, Directing the President of Each University Campus To Meet With Local Municipal Officers To Negotiate Reasonable and Appropriate Financial Support for Municipal Services Provided
Maine Legislature, Session 121, LD 0442
Committee: Education and Cultural Affairs
Sponsors: KNEELAND, WOTTON, CARPENTER, SHERMAN

Legislative Document 
No. 442 
S.P. 161 
In Senate, February 4, 2003 
Resolve, Directing the President of Each University Campus To 
Meet With Local Municipal Officers To Negotiate Reasonable and 
Appropriate Financial Support for Municipal Services Provided 
Reference to the Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs suggested and ordered 
printed. 
Presented by Senator KNEELAND of Aroostook. 
Cosponsored by Representative WOTTON of Littleton and 
JOY J. O'BRIEN 
Secretary of the Senate 
Senator: CARPENTER of York, Representati ves: CHURCHILL of Washburn, SHERMAN of 
Hodgdon. 
Printed on recycled p.lper 
Sec. 1. President of each University of Maine campus directed to 
meet with host municipalities. Resolved: 
That the president of each 
university in the University of Maine System shall arrange to 
meet with the municipal officers of the host municipality of each 
campus within that university, 
or the officers' 
designee, 
to 
negotiate 
a 
reasonable 
and 
appropriate 
system 
of 
financial 
support for municipal services directly provided to each campus. 
The 
negotiations 
must, 
at 
a 
minimum, 
include 
the 
following 
elements: 
1. 
A reasonable calculation of 
the value of municipal 
services directly provided each year to each campus wi thin the 
university, including: 
road maintenance, construction and other 
transportation 
services; 
police, 
fire 
protection, 
emergency 
rescue and other public safety services; solid waste collection, 
disposal 
and 
recycling 
services; 
and 
any 
other 
municipal 
services, benefits or resources provided directly to the campus, 
excluding any utility-type services that are provided to the 
campus and all other users according to a use-based fee or rate 
schedule; 
2. 
A reasonable calculation of all compensation provided by 
the university to the host municipality of each campus for the 
services considered in the calculation required under subsection 
1, 
whether 
according to 
a 
traditional or historic financial 
contribution, a formal or informal payment in lieu of taxes, or 
otherwise; and 
3. 
An agreement about the degree to which the university 
should contribute financially to the host municipality of each 
campus in compensation or partial compensation for the municipal 
services that are directly provided to it. 
In the event the 
parties to the negotiation are unable to reach an agreement with 
respect 
to 
the 
university's 
appropriate 
contribution, 
the 
respective position of each party to the negotiation must 
be 
recorded; and be it further 
Sec. 2. 
Report. 
Resolved: 
That 
the 
president 
of 
each 
university of the University of Maine 
System shall prepare a 
report 
including 
all 
the 
calculations 
generated, 
agreements 
reached or positions recorded pursuant to section 1 and shall 
submit the report on or before January 1, 2004 to the Chancellor 
of 
the 
University 
of 
Maine 
System 
and 
the 
Joint 
Standing 
Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs; and be it further 
Sec. 3. Authority to report out legislation. Resolved: 
That the 
Joint Standing Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs may 
report out to the Second Regular Session of the 121st Legislature 
legislation related to the University of Maine System's financial 
contribution to the municipalities in which its campuses are 
located for the purposes of providing compensation for municipal 
services directly provided to the campuses. 
Page l-LR0966(1) 
SUMMARY 
This resolve directs the president of each university within 
the 
University 
of 
Maine 
System 
to 
meet 
with 
the 
municipal 
officers of the host municipality of each respective university 
campus to negotiate reasonable and appropriate financial support 
for municipal services provided to each campus.