Name of Body: City Council
Tentative Agenda for the Special Meeting of: July 24, 2017
Meeting Begins: 7:00 P.M.
Location: City Hall Council Chambers
Agenda
I. Action on Old and New Business
1. RESOLVE #3-17/18 – Amending Resolve #16-16/17, that $19,050,373 be expended for Regular Instruction. Passage requires majority vote.
2. RESOLVE #4-17/18 – Amending Resolve #17-16/17, that $9,089,213 be expended for Special Education. Passage requires majority vote.
3. RESOLVE #5-17/18 – Amending Resolve #23-16/17, that $2,008,911 be expended for Transportation and Buses. Passage requires majority vote.
4. RESOLVE #6-17/18 – Amending Resolve #24-16/17, that $4,328,601 be expended for Facilities Maintenance. Passage requires majority vote.
5. RESOLVE #7-17/18 - Amending Resolve #27-16/17, the FY 2018 School Department’s Amounts Appropriated for the total cost of funding public education from pre-kindergarten to grade 12 as described in the Essential Programs and Services Funding Act and Amounts to be raised as the City's contribution to the total cost of funding public education from pre-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. Passage requires majority vote.
Explanation: The City’s contribution to the total cost of funding public education from pre-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 municipality must raise in order to receive the full amount of State dollars.
6. RESOLVE #8-17/18 – Amending RESOLVE #29-16/17, That $7,155,414.83 be raised and appropriated in additional local funds, which exceed the State’s Essential Programs and Services Allocation model by $6,394,662.67 as required to fund the budget recommended by the Board of Education. Passage requires majority vote.
The Board of Education recommends $7,155,414.83 for additional local funds and gives the following reasons for exceeding the State’s Essential Programs and Services funding model by $6,394,662.67.
- Co-curricular/Athletic costs not recognized by EPS
- Maintaining/Staffing two small Middle Schools rather than one
- Staffing for Nursing Services greater than acknowledged by EPS
- Maintaining/Staffing five small Elementary Schools rather than four
- Class Size Targets less than State standard
- Purchase of one 84 passenger Type D school bus
- Lease payment for SPHS iPads
- Capital Improvement Projects for Mahoney, Memorial and SPHS approved by voters on June 9, 2009
Explanation: The additional local funds are those locally raised funds over and above the municipality’s local contribution to the total cost of funding public education from pre-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 school department budget for educational programs.
7. RESOLVE #9-17/18 - Amending Resolve #38-16/17 the FY 2018 Appropriation Resolve, to amend various estimated revenues and expenditures by $ (to be determined). Passage requires majority vote.
In the event the Council determines that it may not reach all agenda items by 11:00 P.M., it may postpone some items to a subsequent meeting. Postponement is not required, and the Council may take up agenda items after 11:00 P.M. Any items postponed to the next meeting will normally be scheduled ahead of subsequently scheduled agenda items.