An Act To Raise the Debt Limit of the City of Brewer High School District (AFTER DEADLINE)
Maine Legislature, Session 122, LD 1988
Committee: Education and Cultural Affairs
Sponsors: FISHER, ROSEN, HALL

Legislative Document 
No. 1988 
H.P.1393 
House of Representatives, January 31, 2006 
An Act To Raise the Debt Limit of the City of Brewer High School 
District 
(AFTER DEADLINE) 
Approved for introduction by a majority of the Legislative Council pursuant to Joint Rule 
205. 
Reference to the Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs suggested and ordered 
printed. 
Presented by Representative FISHER of Brewer. 
Cosponsored by Senator ROSEN of Hancock and 
Representative: HALL of Holden. 
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MILLICENT M. MacFARLAND 
Clerk 
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: 
Sec. 1. P&SL 1925, c. 4, §1, is amended to read: 
Sec. 1. 
City of Brewer High School District incorporated; purposes. 
Subject to the provisions of section eight hereoffl, the eity City of Brewer shall constitute 
constitutes a body politic and corporate under the name of the City of Brewer High 
School District for the purpose of erecting, equipping, repairing, renovating and 
maintaining a high school within saffi that district upon land already secured for the 
purpose and located at the corner of Center and Somerset Streets, as is hereinafter 
provided, for the benefit of the inhabitants thereof. 
Sec. 2. P&SL 1925, c. 4, §1-A, first sentence, as repealed and replaced by 
P&SL 1949, c. 164, §1, is amended to read: 
The eity Qty of Brewer High School District is hereby authorized, if in the judgment of 
its board of trustees it is deemed necessary, to purchase land and to erect, equip, repair, 
renovate and maintain one or more grammar schools, a junior high school, a high school 
and a vocational school or any or all of such schools within saffi that district for the 
benefit of the inhabitants of saffi that district. 
Sec. 3. P&SL 1925, c. 4, §2 is amended to read: 
Sec. 2. City authorized to convey to district certain real estate, interests 
in real estate and other property. The eity Qty of Brewer is hereby expressly 
authorized to convey to saffi the district the land situated at the corner of Center and 
Somerset streets novi owned by it, upon which a foundation for a ne'", high school 
building is already under construction, together with the plans, for a new building, 
already contracted for an approved by the city council any real, personal or mixed 
property owned or held by the City of Brewer. 
Sec. 4. P&SL 1925, c. 4, §5, first sentence, as amended by P&SL 2001, c. 27, 
§ 1, is further amended to read: 
To procure funds for the purposes of this Act and such other expenses as may be 
necessary to the carrying out of saffi those purposes, the saffi district, by its trustees, is 
hereby authorized to issue notes and bonds, but sfl.all may not incur a total indebtedness 
exceeding the sum of $5,000,000 7.5% of the most recent state valuation of the City of 
Brewer at anyone time outstanding. 
Sec. 5. P&SL 1925, c. 4, §5, as amended by P&SL 2001, c. 27, § 1, is further 
amended by adding at the end a new sentence to read: 
The district is authorized by its trustees to enter into agreements with the Federal 
Government, the Maine Municipal Bond Bank and others to lend money to the district or 
otherwise to assist in the financing of proiects that the district is authorized to carry out. 
The district by its trustees may borrow in anticipation of the issuance of the district's 
bonds and in anticipation of the receipt of state and federal grants by issuing temporary 
notes and renewal notes in the name of the district. 
Sec. 6. P&SL 1925, c. 4, §6, as amended by P&SL 1941, c. 74, §3, is repealed 
and the following enacted in its place: 
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Sec. 6. Sinking fund. If bonds of the district are made to run for a period of years, 
a sinking fund for their retirement may be established by the trustees in accordance with 
any applicable requirements of the Internal Revenue Code and regulations adopted under 
the code. 
Sec. 7. P&SL 1925, c. 4, §7, first sentence is amended to read: 
The trustees of the e-ity .c.i.b:: of Brewer High School District shall determine the sum to be 
paid annually into tIte any sinking fund, established by the Trustees or, if the bonds 
authorized by this act shall be are issued to mature serially, what amount is required each 
year to meet the bonds falling due, and what sum is required each year to meet the 
interest on satd the bonds or other obligations, and other necessary expenses in the 
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district, and shall each year thereafter, before the first day of April, issue their warrant in 
the same form as the warrant of the state treasurer State Treasurer for taxes, with proper 
changes, to the assessors of the e-ity .c.i.b:: of Brewer, requiring them to assess the sum so 
determined upon the taxable polls and estates within satd the district and to commit their 
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assessment to the constable or collector of said cit)' the City of Brewer, who shall have 
has all authority and powers to collect satd those taxes as ts vested by law to collect state, 
county and municipal taxes. 
Sec. 8. P&SL 1925, c. 4, §8, first sentence, as amended by PL 1941, c. 74, §4, 
is further amended to read: 
At such time as the When any high school building and such other buildings the erection 
of which is authorized in section I-A herein shall have been completed, equipped, and 
occupied by pupils of satd the district and the board of trustees of the district shall have 
has discharged all of its principal obligations and the property of satd the district shall be 
~ free and clear of all indebtedness, the board of trustees sfl.al-l automatically cease ceases 
to function, and all of the duties, management, care, renovation, repair and maintenance 
sfl.al-l revert to the school board of the e-ity .c.i.b:: of Brewer or such other board as may, at 
that time, have jurisdiction over similar school property, and the tfleR president and 
treasurer shall cause to be executed, signed and delivered, a good and sufficient deed of 
all the property in satd the district, to the e-ity.c.i.b:: of Brewer. 
Sec. 9. Referendum; effective date. This Act takes effect only for the purpose 
of permitting its submission to the legal voters within the City of Brewer at a special or 
regular city election, which must be held in conjunction with a referendum election on a 
proposed elementary school construction project to be constructed by the City of Brewer 
High School District. The election must be called, advertised and conducted according to 
law and must be held prior to December 3 I, 2008. 
The city clerk shall prepare the 
required ballots, on which the city clerk shall reduce the subject matter of this Act to the 
following question: 
"Do you favor increasing the debt limit of the City of Brewer High 
School District from $5,000,000 to 7.5% of the most recent state 
valuation of the City of Brewer?" 
The legal voters of the City of Brewer shall vote by ballot on this question and 
designate their choice by a cross or check mark placed within a corresponding square 
below the word "Yes" or "No." 
The results must be declared by the municipal officers of the City of Brewer and due 
certificate of the results filed by the city clerk with the Secretary of State. 
This Act takes effect upon approval of both a new elementary school construction 
project and acceptance of this Act by a majority ofthose voting at the election. 
SUMMARY 
This bill amends the private and special law that established the City of Brewer High 
School District to increase the debt limit of the district from $5,000,000 to 7.5% of the 
most recent state valuation of the City of Brewer. The bill also clarifies the authority of 
the City of Brewer to convey property to the district and authorizes the district to enter 
into agreements with the Federal Government, the Maine Municipal Bond Bank and 
others to help finance school construction projects in the City of Brewer. The bill also 
clarifies the authority ofthe district to renovate and repair its school buildings.