An Act To Establish Municipal Cost Components for Unorganized Territory Services To Be Rendered in Fiscal Year 2008-09 and To Require Notation of Tax Enhancement Programs Approved by the County Commissioners
Maine Legislature, Session 123, LD 2251
Committee Amendment CA_A_H920 (House)

COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "I-f "t~ H.P. 1613, L.D. 2251, Bill, "An Act To 
Establish Municipal Cost Components for Unorganized Territory Services To Be 
Rendered in Fiscal Year 2008-09 and To Require Notation of Tax Enhancement 
Programs Approved by the County Commissioners" 
Amend the bill in section 1 in paragraph B by striking out all of the last underlined 
sentence (page 1, lines 20 and 21 in L.D.) and inserting the following: 'This report must 
also include information relating to development districts under consideration or 
approved by the county commissioners under Title 30-A, section 5235 and provide 
details regarding costs and tax shifts resulting from or anticipated to result from the 
development district or proposed district' 
Amend the bill by striking out all of section 3 and inserting the following: 
'Sec. 3. 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 2008-09 is as follows: 
Audit - Fiscal Administration 
Education 
Forest Fire Protection 
Human Services - General Assistance 
Property Tax Assessment - Operations 
Maine Land Use Regulation Commission -
Operations 
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COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
$198,294 
11,883,253 
160,000 
62,000 
799,852 
404,589 
, 
~," 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT" If" to H.P. 1613, L.D. 2251 
TOTAL STATE AGENCIES 
County Reimbursements for Services: 
Aroostook 
Franklin 
Hancock 
Kennebec 
Oxford 
1O 
Penobscot 
II 
Piscataquis 
Somerset 
Washington 
TOTAL COUNTY SERVICES 
TOT AL REQUIREMENTS 
COMPUTATION OF ASSESSMENT 
Requirements 
Less Deductions: 
General-
TOTAL 
State Revenue Sharing 
Homestead Reimbursement 
Miscellaneous Revenues 
Transfer from Undesignated Fund Balance 
Educational -
TOTAL 
Land Reserved Trust 
Tuition/Travel 
Miscellaneous 
Special- Teacher Retirement 
TOTAL DEDUCTIONS 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
$13,507,988 
$822,636 
653,984 
164,925 
459,128 
857,695 
1,145,517 
864,474 
686,371 
$5,655,611 
$19,163,599 
$19,163,599 
$290,000 
100,000 
50,000 
3,000,000 
$3,440,000 
$100,000 
250,000 
5,000 
200,000 
$555,000 
($3,995,000) 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT" A" to H.P. 1613, L.D. 2251 
TAX ASSESSMENT 
SUMMARY 
$15,168,599 
This amendment requires the fiscal administrator of the unorganized territory to 
include information about economic development districts in the unorganized territory in 
the administrator's annual report. The amendment also corrects an error in the amount of 
county reimbursement for services requested by Aroostook County. 
~-ISCAL '\UT[ ]{UjL iKED 
(See attached) 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
Approved: 03/26/08 frac.. 
LD 2251 
LR 3540(02) 
An Act To Establish Municipal Cost Components for Unorganized Territory Services To Be Rendered 
in Fiscal Year 2008-09 and To Require Notation of Tax Enhancement Programs Approved by the 
County Commissioners 
Fiscal Note for Bill as Amended by Committee Amendment" A " 
Committee: Taxation 
Fiscal Note Required: Yes 
Fiscal Note 
No net fiscal impact 
Fiscal Detail and Notes 
The amounts in the bill for the state costs included in the municipal cost components are based on budgeted 
expenditures for fiscal year 2008-09. These costs are incorporated into the tax assessment for the unorganized 
territory, which is collected as dededicated revenue to the Unorganized Territory Education and Services Fund. 
Transfers are then made to the other dedicated accounts for certain expenditures related to the Unorganized Territory 
and to the General Fund to reimburse for actual General Fund expenditures included in the municipal cost 
components. This bill will not affect budgeted General Fund revenue or appropriations. 
LR3540(02) - Fiscal Note - Page I of I