Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 15680 – Per-pupil amounts not related to staffing
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1. Additional cost components. The commissioner shall calculate one set of per-pupil amounts for each of the following cost categories to be applied to the elementary school level and middle school level and shall calculate another set of per-pupil amounts for each of the following cost categories to be applied to the high school level:
A. [PL 2017, c. 284, Pt. C, §34 (RP).]
B. Operation and maintenance of plant. The per-pupil amount for “operation and maintenance of plant” is the actual operation and maintenance of plant expenditures, as defined in the State’s accounting handbook for local school systems, for the most recent year available excluding expenditures for leases and the purchase of land and buildings, divided by the average October and April enrollment counts for that fiscal year and then inflated to an estimated allocation year level by a 10-year average increase in the Consumer Price Index or other comparable index. For school year 2008-2009, the resulting per-pupil amount must be reduced by 5%; [PL 2007, c. 240, Pt. XXXX, §26 (AMD).]
C. Supplies and equipment; [PL 2003, c. 504, Pt. A, §6 (NEW).]
D. Cocurricular and extracurricular activities; [PL 2003, c. 504, Pt. A, §6 (NEW).]
E. Professional development; and [PL 2003, c. 504, Pt. A, §6 (NEW).]
F. Instructional leadership support. [PL 2003, c. 504, Pt. A, §6 (NEW).]
[PL 2017, c. 284, Pt. C, §34 (AMD).]
Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 15680
- Allocation year: means the year that subsidy is distributed to school administrative units. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 15672
- Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Education or the commissioner's designee. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 1
- Elementary school: means that portion of a school that provides instruction in any combination of kindergarten through grade 8. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 1
- Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
- High school level: means grade 9 to grade 12. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 15672
- Middle school level: means grade 6 to grade 8. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 15672
- State board: means the State Board of Education. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 1
- Year: means a fiscal year starting July 1st and ending June 30th of the succeeding year. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A Sec. 15672
2. Fiscal year 2005-06.
[PL 2021, c. 571, §28 (RP).]
3. Fiscal year 2006-07 and beyond. For fiscal year 2006-07 and for each subsequent year, the commissioner shall recalculate the per-pupil amounts for additional cost components under subsection 1 using the amounts approved by the state board for the previous year as a base and including appropriate trends in the Consumer Price Index or other comparable index.
[PL 2021, c. 571, §29 (AMD).]
4. Review; approval.
[PL 2005, c. 519, Pt. AAAA, §6 (RP).]
SECTION HISTORY
PL 2003, c. 504, §A6 (NEW). PL 2005, c. 519, §AAAA6 (AMD). PL 2007, c. 240, Pt. XXXX, §§25, 26 (AMD). PL 2017, c. 284, Pt. C, §34 (AMD). PL 2021, c. 571, §§28, 29 (AMD).