| 122nd MAINE LEGISLATURE | |||||||||
| LD 1122 | LR 2218(01) | ||||||||
| Resolve, To Establish the Wabanaki Trail | |||||||||
| Fiscal Note for Original Bill | |||||||||
| Sponsor: Rep. Loring of the Penobscot Nation | |||||||||
| Committee: Transportation | |||||||||
| Fiscal Note Required: Yes | |||||||||
| Fiscal Note | |||||||||
| Current biennium cost increase - Other Special Revenue Funds | |||||||||
| Minor cost increase - Highway Fund | |||||||||
| Fiscal Detail and Notes | |||||||||
| The cost to the Office of Tourism within the Department of Economic and Community Development to design and create 100,000 maps, based on experience with other maps, is between $75,000 and $100,000. The Office of Tourism receives 5% of the meals and lodging tax as its primary source of revenue for the support of its operations and receives no General Fund appropriations. The ability of the Office to absorb the cost of creating the maps without impacting other services or programs can not be determined at this time. | |||||||||
| Additional costs to the University of Maine System to participate in the task force can be absorbed within existing budgeted resources. | |||||||||
| Additional costs to the Department of Transportation to adopt certain rules and produce signage can be absorbed within existing budgeted resources. | |||||||||