G.__Shall, for the purposes of calculating program costs for state subsidy purposes of fiscal year 2000-01 for the City of Westbrook and the other school units affiliated with Westbrook Regional Vocational Center, reallocate the total applied technology education costs of Westbrook Regional Vocational Center for fiscal year 1998-99 among the City of Westbrook and those units on the basis of the average of the percentage of the number of pupils attending Westbrook Regional Vocational Center from the City of Westbrook and each of those units on October 1, 1997 and October 1, 1998; and

H.__Shall, for the purposes of calculating program costs for state subsidy purposes for the fiscal year 2001-02 for the City of Westbrook and the other school units affiliated with Westbrook Regional Vocational Center, reallocate the total applied technology education costs of Westbrook Regional Vocational Center for fiscal year 1999-00 among the City of Westbrook and those units on the basis of the average of the percentage of the number of pupils attending Westbrook Regional Vocational Center from the City of Westbrook and each of those units on October 1, 1998 and October 1, 1999.

Sec. 4. 20-A MRSA §8404, sub-§4 is enacted to read:

4.__Cost-sharing agreement; amend.__The commissioner may approve an amendment to the cost-sharing agreement of an applied technology center, adopted by the participating school units, that provides that the costs of the applied technology center must be reallocated among the participating school units for the purposes of calculating the state subsidy to those units for not more than 2 years in order to ease the transition to a new cost- sharing agreement.

SUMMARY

This bill allows reallocation of applied technology costs education for the Portland Arts and Technology High School and the Westbrook Regional Vocational Center intended to go into