Sec. 1. 20-A MRSA §8404, sub-§3, ¶C, as amended by PL 1991, c. 716, §§6 and 7, is further amended to read:

C. Shall, in the event that the school boards of School Administrative District No. 27, School Administrative District No. 33 and Madawaska School Department enter into a cooperative agreement pursuant to section 8401 and a new applied technology center in Maine School Administrative District No. 33 becomes operational, devise a cost sharing formula for the center established thereby pertaining to the cost of applied technology educational programs which that exceed expenditures made for those programs in the base year as adjusted pursuant to section 15603, subsection 5 and to the local share of debt service costs attributable to construction of the center in School Administrative District No. 33; and

Sec. 2. 20-A MRSA §8404, sub-§3, ¶D, as enacted by PL 1991, c. 518, §15, is amended to read:

D. May devise a formula for sharing costs of the center among the units served by that center. Such a formula or any amendment to the formula must be ratified by the school board of each unit or affiliated unit served by the center. Any such unit may withdraw, subject to obligations incurred by the unit for any debt issued previously by or for the benefit of the center, from such a cost-sharing formula at the end of any fiscal year following one year's written notice to all other units served by the center. Following withdrawal by such a unit, the center shall, if the unit wishes, continue to serve that unit under a financial arrangement approved by the center that does not assess the unit a per pupil assessment that exceeds the per pupil assessments of the other participating units.;

Sec. 3. 20-A MRSA §8404, sub-§3, ¶¶E, F, G and H are enacted to read:

E.__Shall, for the purposes of calculating program costs for state subsidy purposes for fiscal year 2000-01 for the City of Portland and the other school units affiliated with Portland Arts and Technology High School, reallocate the total applied technology education costs of Portland Arts and Technology High School for fiscal year 1999-00 among the City of Portland and those units on the basis of the average of the percentage of the number of pupils attending Portland Arts and Technology High School from the City of Portland and each of those units on October 1, 1997 and October 1, 1998;