KidsRSU

TO: Susan Corbett, a resident of Regional School Unit No. 2 (the Regional School Unit) composed of the City of Hallowell and the Towns of Dresden, Farmingdale, Monmouth, and Richmond, State of Maine.

In the name of the State of Maine, you are hereby required to notify the voters of each of the municipalities within Regional School Unit No. 2, namely, the City of Hallowell and the Towns of Dresden, Farmingdale, Monmouth, and Richmond, that a Regional School Unit Budget Meeting will be held at Hall-Dale Middle School/High School Theater, Maple Street in the Town of Farmingdale, Maine at 6:00 p.m. on June 1, 2009 for the purpose of determining the Budget Meeting articles set forth below.

ARTICLE 1A: To elect a moderator to preside at the meeting.

ARTICLES 1 THROUGH 11 AUTHORIZE EXPENDITURES IN COST
CENTER CATEGORIES

ARTICLE 1:  To see what sum the Regional School Unit will be authorized to expend for Regular Instruction.
Regional School Unit Board Recommends $9,766,097

ARTICLE 2:  To see what sum the Regional School Unit will be authorized to expend for Special Education.
Regional School Unit Board Recommends $3,627,853

ARTICLE 3:  To see what sum the Regional School Unit will be authorized to expend for Career and Technical Education.
Regional School Unit Board Recommends $261,818

ARTICLE 4:  To see what sum the Regional School Unit will be authorized to expend for Other Instruction.
Regional School Unit Board Recommends $708,489

ARTICLE 5:  To see what sum the Regional School Unit will be authorized to expend for Student and Staff Support.
Regional School Unit Board Recommends $2,366,649

ARTICLE 6:  To see what sum the Regional School Unit will be authorized to expend for System Administration.
Regional School Unit Board Recommends $688,295

ARTICLE 7:  To see what sum the Regional School Unit will be authorized to expend for School Administration.
Regional School Unit Board Recommends $1,346,186

ARTICLE 8:  To see what sum the Regional School Unit will be authorized to expend for Transportation and Buses.
Regional School Unit Board Recommends $1,348,044

ARTICLE 9:  To see what sum the Regional School Unit will be authorized to expend for Facilities Maintenance.
Regional School Unit Board Recommends $2,963,025

ARTICLE 10:  To see what sum the Regional School Unit will be authorized to expend for Debt Service and Other Commitments.
Regional School Unit Board Recommends $1,827,219

ARTICLE 11:  To see what sum the Regional School Unit will be authorized to expend for All Other Expenditures.
Regional School Unit Board Recommends $79,494

ARTICLES 12 THROUGH 14 RAISE FUNDS FOR THE
PROPOSED SCHOOL BUDGET

ARTICLE 12:  To see what sum the Regional School Unit will appropriate for the total cost of funding public education from kindergarten to grade 12 as described in the Essential Programs and Services Funding Act and to see what sum the Regional School Unit will raise and assess as each municipality’s contribution to the total cost of funding public education from kindergarten to grade 12 as described in the Essential Programs and Services Funding Act in accordance with the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 20-A, section 15688.  Recommended amounts set forth below:

Total Appropriated (by municipality): Total raised (and Regional School Unit assessments by municipality):
Town of Dresden: $2,051,891 Town of Dresden: $901,992
Town of Farmingdale: $4,489,371 Town of Farmingdale: $1,168,258
City of Hallowell: $3,326,626 City of Hallowell:  $1,363,817
Town of Monmouth: $6,818,522 Town of Monmouth: $2,293,518
Town of Richmond: $4,783,708 Town of Richmond: $1,721,174
School Regional School Unit Total
Appropriated            
(Sum of above)      $21,470,118 School Regional School Unit
Total Raised:                       
(Sum of above)      $7,448,759

Explanation:  The Regional School Unit’s contribution to the total cost of funding public education from kindergarten to grade 12 as described in the Essential Programs and Services Funding Act is the amount of money determined by state law to be the minimum amount that the Regional School Unit must raise and assess in order to receive the full amount of state dollars.

ARTICLE 13:  To see what sum the Regional School Unit will raise and appropriate for the annual payments on debt service previously approved by the Regional School Unit voters for non-state-funded school construction projects, non-state-funded portions of school construction projects and minor capital projects in addition to the funds appropriated as the local share of the Regional School Unit’s contribution to the total cost of funding public education from kindergarten to grade 12.
Regional School Unit Board Recommends $249,728.00

Explanation: Non-state-funded debt service is the amount of money needed for the annual payments on the Regional School Unit’s long-term debt for major capital school construction projects and minor capital renovation projects that are not approved for state subsidy.  The bonding of this long-term debt was previously approved by the Regional School Unit voters.

ARTICLE 14:  (Written ballot required).  To see what sum the Regional School Unit will raise and appropriate in additional local funds (Recommend $2,673,322.00), which exceeds the State’s Essential Programs and Services allocation model by (Recommend $2,190,359.00) as required to fund the budget recommended by the Regional School Unit Board.

The Regional School Unit Board recommends $2,673,322.00 for additional local funds and gives the following reasons for exceeding the State’s Essential Programs and Services funding model by $2,190,359.00:

1. Cost of maintaining Teacher : Student ratios
2. Cost of maintaining Co- and Extra-Curricular programs
3. Start-up cost of RSU

Explanation:  The additional local funds are those locally raised funds over and above the Regional School Unit’s local contribution to the total cost of funding public education from kindergarten to grade 12 as described in the Essential Programs and Services Funding Act and local amounts raised for the annual payment on non-state funded debt service that will help achieve the Regional School Unit budget for educational programs.

ARTICLE 15 SUMMARIZES THE PROPOSED SCHOOL BUDGET

ARTICLE 15:  To see what sum the Regional School Unit will authorize the Regional School Unit Board to expend for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2009 and ending June 30, 2010 from the Regional School Unit’s contribution to the total cost of funding public education from kindergarten to grade 12 as described in the Essential Programs and Services Funding Act, non-state-funded school construction projects, additional local funds for school purposes under the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 20-A, section 15690, unexpended balances, tuition receipts, state subsidy and other receipts for the support of schools.
Regional School Unit Board Recommends $24,983,169

ARTICLE 16 AUTHORIZES EXPENDITURE OF GRANTS AND OTHER RECEIPTS

ARTICLE 16:  Shall the Regional School Unit Board be authorized to expend such other sums as may be received from federal or state grants or programs or other sources during the fiscal year for school purposes provided that such grants, programs or other sources do not require the expenditure of other funds not previously appropriated?

ARTICLE 17 AUTHORIZES THE ADULT EDUCATION PROGRAM AND RAISES THE LOCAL SHARE

ARTICLE 17:  To see if Regional School Unit No. 2 will appropriate $263,129 for adult education and raise $82,684 as the local share; with authorization to expend any additional, incidental, or miscellaneous receipts in the interest and for the well-being of the adult education program.

Given under our hand this day, April 27, 2009 at Hallowell, Maine.