| | | 3. Time and place. The district school committee shall call | | an annual budget meeting on or before June 30th at an hour and in | | a location within the community school district it designates, | | except that the school committee may delay the annual budget | meeting to a date after July 1st in accordance with section 15617 | | 15693, subsection 2, paragraph C. |
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| | | Sec. D-12. 20-A MRSA §1701, sub-§9, ķA, as amended by PL 1999, c. 710, | | §8, is further amended to read: |
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| | | A. The budget format may be determined by the voters of a | | community school district by adoption of an appropriate | | warrant article at a properly called election held in | accordance with the procedure set forth in section 15617 | | 15693, subsection 6. |
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| | | Sec. D-13. 20-A MRSA §1701, sub-§12, as amended by PL 1999, c. 710, | | §10, is further amended to read: |
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| | | 12. State-local allocations. To summarize the action taken | | on the budget for the purposes of determining the community | | school district's state-local allocations, the articles | prescribed in chapter 606 |
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| | | Sec. D-14. 20-A MRSA §1701-B, sub-§5, as enacted by PL 1999, c. 710, | | §11, is amended to read: |
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| | | 5. Failure to approve budget. If the voters do not validate | | the budget approved in the district budget meeting at the budget | | validation referendum vote, the district school committee shall | | hold another district budget meeting in accordance with section | | 1701, subsection 8 at least 10 days after the referendum to vote | | on a budget approved by the committee. The budget approved at | | the district budget meeting must be submitted to the voters for | | validation at referendum in accordance with this section. The | | process must be repeated until a budget is approved at a district | | budget meeting and validated at referendum. If a budget is not | | approved and validated before July 1st of each year, the latest | | budget submitted by the committee is automatically considered the | | budget for operational expenses for the ensuing year until a | | final budget is approved, except that when the school committee | | delays the district budget meeting in accordance with section | 15617 | | be approved within 30 days of the date the commissioner notifies | | the school committee of the amount allocated to the school unit | under section 15613 | | committee becomes the operating budget for the next school year. |
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