An Act To Establish Municipal Cost Components for Unorganized Territory Services To Be Rendered in Fiscal Year 2014-15

Emergency preamble. Whereas,  acts and resolves of the Legislature do not become effective until 90 days after adjournment unless enacted as emergencies; and

Whereas,  prompt determination and certification of the municipal cost components in the Unorganized Territory Tax District are necessary to the establishment of a mill rate and the levy of the Unorganized Territory Educational and Services Tax; and

Whereas,  in the judgment of the Legislature, these facts create an emergency within the meaning of the Constitution of Maine and require the following legislation as immediately necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health and safety; now, therefore,

Sec. 1. 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 2014-15 is as follows:

Audit - Fiscal Administration				$219,722
Education				12,022,813
Forest Fire Protection				150,000
Human Services - General Assistance				55,750
Property Tax Assessment - Operations				1,031,852
Maine Land Use Planning Commission - Operations				523,019
TOTAL STATE AGENCIES				$14,003,156
County Reimbursements for Services:
	Aroostook			$1,042,847
	Franklin			991,854
	Hancock			320,363
	Kennebec			11,831
	Oxford			1,185,959
	Penobscot			1,020,403
	Piscataquis			990,627
	Somerset			1,441,824
	Washington			839,105
TOTAL COUNTY SERVICES				$7,844,813
COUNTY TAX INCREMENT FINANCING DISTRIBUTIONS FROM FUND
	Tax Increment Financing Payments			$3,100,000
TOTAL REQUIREMENTS				$24,947,969

COMPUTATION OF ASSESSMENT
Requirements						$24,947,969
Less Deductions:
	General -
		State Revenue Sharing				$100,000
		Homestead Reimbursement				94,538
		Miscellaneous Revenues				70,000
		Transfer from undesignated fund balance				2,300,000
TOTAL GENERAL DEDUCTIONS						$2,564,538
	Educational -
		Land Reserved Trust				$70,000
		Tuition/Travel				105,077
		United States Forestry Payment in Lieu of Taxes				0
		Special - Teacher Retirement				148,378
TOTAL EDUCATION DEDUCTIONS						$323,455
TOTAL DEDUCTIONS						$2,887,993
TAX ASSESSMENT						$22,059,976

Emergency clause. In view of the emergency cited in the preamble, this legislation takes effect when approved.