Warrant articles listed for RSU Budget meeting

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 RSU 39 will be authorized to expend for Regular Instruction. Board of Directors Recommends $ 7,757,797
ARTICLE 2: To see what sum RSU 39 will be authorized to expend for Special Education. Board of Directors Recommends $ 2,681,196
ARTICLE 3: To see what sum RSU 39 will be authorized to expend for Career and Technical Education. Board of Directors Recommends $ 1,320,407
ARTICLE 4: To see what sum RSU 39 will be authorized to expend for Other Instruction. Board of Directors Recommends $ 712,884
ARTICLE 5: To see what sum RSU 39 will be authorized to expend for Student and Staff Support. Board of Directors Recommends $ 1,749,705
ARTICLE 6: To see what sum RSU 39 will be authorized to expend for System Administration. Board of Directors Recommends
$ 638,991
ARTICLE 7: To see what sum RSU 39 will be authorized to expend for School Administration. Board of Directors Recommends
$ 999,525
ARTICLE 8: To see what sum RSU 39 will be authorized to expend for Transportation and Buses. Board of Directors Recommends $ 898,366
ARTICLE 9: To see what sum RSU 39 will be authorized to expend for Facilities Maintenance. Board of Directors Recommends
$ 2,719,618.50
ARTICLE 10: To see what sum RSU 39 will be authorized to expend for Debt Service and Other Commitments. Board of Directors Recommends $ 0
ARTICLE 11: To see what sum RSU 39 will be authorized to expend for All Other Expenditures. Board of Directors Recommends
$ 106,494.50
    Articles 12 through 14 raise funds for the proposed school budget:
ARTICLE 12: To see what sum RSU 39 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 RSU 39 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): City of Caribou: $12,215,281.13; Town of Limestone: $2,612,148.93; and Town of Stockholm: $324,245.86. RSU Total Appropriated: $15,151,675.92
    Total raised (and RSU assessments by municipality): City of Caribou: $2,002,728; Town of Limestone: $393,029; and Town of Stockholm: $84,402.50. RSU Total Raised: $2,480,159.50.
    Explanation: RSU 39’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 RSU 39 must raise and assess in order to receive the full amount of state dollars.
    ARTICLE 13: To see what sum RSU 39 will raise and appropriate for the annual payments on debt service previously approved by RSU 39 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 RSU 39’s contribution to the total cost of funding public education from kindergarten to grade 12. Board of Directors Recommends $ 0.
    Explanation: Non-state-funded debt service is the amount of money needed for the annual payments on RSU 39’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 RSU 39 voters.
    ARTICLE 14: (Written ballot required). To see what sum RSU 39 will raise and appropriate in net additional local funds* (Recommend $3,348,156), which exceeds the State’s Essential Programs and Services allocation model by (Recommend $3,006,290) as required to fund the budget recommended by the Board of Directors.
    The Board of Directors recommends $3,348,156 for additional local funds and gives the following reasons for exceeding the State’s Essential Programs and Services funding model by 3,006,290:
–    Special Education Costs
–    Operation and Maintenance Costs
–    Extra Curricular and Co-curricular Costs
–    Municipalities remaining school balance transfers to RSU at 6/30/09
    Explanation: The additional local funds are those locally raised funds over and above RSU 39’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 RSU 39 budget for educational programs.
    *Net additional local funds is the amount of additional local funds to be raised by the member municipalities of RSU 39 after each member municipality has been given a credit against its FY 2009-10 RSU assessment in the amount of that municipality’s anticipated school account balance transferred to the RSU in accordance with the Reorganization Plan and State law.
    Article 15 summarizes the Proposed School Budget.
    ARTICLE 15: To see what sum RSU 39 will authorize the Board of Directors to expend for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2009 and ending June 30, 2010 from RSU 39’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. Board of Directors Recommends
$ 19,584,984
    Article 16 authorizes expenditure of grants and other receipts.
ARTICLE 16: In addition to amounts approved in the preceding articles, shall the Board of Directors be authorized to expend federal stabilization funds and 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?
    Note: It is currently estimated that the Board of Directors will receive $ 140,166 in federal stabilization funds, which are included in the expenditures authorized by this article.
    Article 17 authorizes the adult education program and raises the local share.
ARTICLE 17: To see if RSU 39 will appropriate $ 234,156 for adult education and raise
$ 85,000 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.