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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	 	 	$198,294	
 	 	 	 	 	
Education	 	 	11,883,253	
 	 	 	 	 	
Forest Fire Protection	 	 	160,000	
 	 	 	 	 	
Human Services - General Assistance	 	 	62,000	
 	 	 	 	 	
Property Tax Assessment - Operations	 	 	799,852	
 	 	 	 	 	
Maine Land Use Regulation Commission - Operations	 	 	404,589	
 	 	 	 	  	
TOTAL STATE AGENCIES	 	 	$13,507,988	
 	 	 	 	 	
County Reimbursements for Services:	
 	 	 	 	 	
 	Aroostook	 	 	$822,636	
 	Franklin	 	 	653,984	
 	Hancock	 	 	164,925	
 	Kennebec	 	 	881	
 	Oxford	 	 	459,128	
 	Penobscot	 	 	857,695	
 	Piscataquis	 	 	1,145,517	
 	Somerset	 	 	864,474	
 	Washington	 	 	686,371	
 	 	 	 	  	
TOTAL COUNTY SERVICES	 	$5,655,611	
 	 	 	 	  	
TOTAL REQUIREMENTS	 	$19,163,599	

 

COMPUTATION OF ASSESSMENT	
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Requirements	 	 	 	$19,163,599	
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Less Deductions:	 	 	 	 	
 	General -	 	 	 	 	
 	 	State Revenue Sharing	$290,000	
 	 	Homestead Reimbursement	100,000	
 	 	Miscellaneous Revenues	50,000	
 	 	Transfer from Undesignated Fund Balance	3,000,000	
 	 	 	 	 	 	  	
TOTAL	 	 	 	$3,440,000	
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	Educational -	 	 	 	 	
 	 	Land Reserved Trust	$100,000	
 	 	Tuition/Travel	250,000	
 	 	Miscellaneous	5,000	
 	 	Special - Teacher Retirement	200,000	
 	 	 	 	 	 	  	
TOTAL	 	 	 	$555,000	
 	 	 	 	 	 	  	
TOTAL DEDUCTIONS	 	($3,995,000)	
 	 	 	 	 	 	  	
TAX ASSESSMENT	 	$15,168,599	
 
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SUMMARY
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.