20-A §8404. Center advisory committee - Maine Statutes

Title 20-A: EDUCATION

Part 4: SPECIFIC EDUCATION PROGRAMS

Subpart 2: APPLIED TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION HEADING: PL 1991, C. 716, §5 (AMD)

Chapter 313: APPLIED TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION HEADING: RR 1993, C. 1, §48 (COR)

Subchapter 3: APPLIED TECHNOLOGY CENTERS

§8404. Center advisory committee

Each center must have an advisory committee responsible for advising the career and technical education director concerning the provision of career and technical education by the center. [RR 2003, c. 2, §58 (COR).]

1. Membership. Membership on the advisory committee consists of:

A. The superintendent of each unit governing or affiliated with the center or the superintendent's designee; [1991, c. 518, §15 (AMD).]

B. A member of the school board for each unit governing or affiliated with the center, chosen by that school board; and [1991, c. 518, §15 (AMD).]

C. If approved by the school board of each unit governing or affiliated with the center, representatives, on either a voting or nonvoting basis, of private secondary schools approved for tuition purposes and served by the center. [1991, c. 518, §15 (NEW).]

[ 1991, c. 518, §15 (AMD) .]

2. Meetings. The advisory committee shall meet at least 6 times per calendar year.

[ 1991, c. 518, §15 (AMD) .]

3. Duties. The advisory committee:

A. Shall advise and assist the center and its satellite programs in the preparation and submission of an annual report on the center and satellite programs to the commissioner and to each municipality served by the center or satellite programs; [1991, c. 518, §15 (AMD).]

B. Shall develop a cooperative agreement delineating the duties and powers of the advisory committee. A cooperative agreement or any amendment to the agreement must be ratified by the school board of each unit or affiliated unit served by the center. A cooperative agreement must be reviewed annually by the advisory committee and submitted by the center and its affiliated units to the commissioner; [1991, c. 518, §15 (AMD).]

C. Shall, in the event that the school boards of School Administrative District No. 27, School Administrative District No. 33 and Madawaska School Department enter into a cooperative agreement pursuant to section 8401 and a new career and technical education center in Maine School Administrative District No. 33 becomes operational, devise a cost sharing formula for the center established thereby pertaining to the cost of career and technical education programs that exceed expenditures made for those programs in the base year as adjusted pursuant to section 15681-A, subsection 4 and to the local share of debt service costs attributable to construction of the center in School Administrative District No. 33; [2005, c. 2, Pt. D, §§72, 74 (AFF); 2005, c. 2, Pt. D, §26 (AMD); 2005, c. 12, Pt. WW, §18 (AFF).]

D. May devise a formula for sharing costs of the center among the units served by that center. Such a formula or any amendment to the formula must be ratified by the school board of each unit or affiliated unit served by the center. Any such unit may withdraw, subject to obligations incurred by the unit for any debt issued previously by or for the benefit of the center, from such a cost-sharing formula at the end of any fiscal year following one year's written notice to all other units served by the center. Following withdrawal by such a unit, the center shall, if the unit wishes, continue to serve that unit under a financial arrangement approved by the center that does not assess the unit a per pupil assessment that exceeds the per pupil assessments of the other participating units; [1999, c. 226, §2 (AMD).]

E. Shall, for the purposes of calculating program costs for state subsidy purposes for fiscal year 2000-01 for the City of Portland and the other school units affiliated with Portland Arts and Technology High School, reallocate the total career and technical education costs of Portland Arts and Technology High School for fiscal year 1998-99 among the City of Portland and those units on the basis of the average of the percentage of the number of pupils attending Portland Arts and Technology High School from the City of Portland and each of those units on October 1, 1997 and October 1, 1998; [1999, c. 226, §3 (NEW); 2003, c. 545, §4 (REV).]

F. Shall, for the purposes of calculating program costs for state subsidy purposes for fiscal year 2001-02 for the City of Portland and the other school units affiliated with Portland Arts and Technology High School, reallocate the total career and technical education costs for fiscal year 1999-00 among the City of Portland and those units on the basis of the average of the percentage of the number of pupils attending Portland Arts and Technology High School from the City of Portland and each of those units on October 1, 1998 and October 1, 1999; [1999, c. 226, §3 (NEW); 2003, c. 545, §4 (REV).]

G. Shall, for the purposes of calculating program costs for state subsidy purposes of fiscal year 2000-01 for the City of Westbrook and the other school units affiliated with Westbrook Regional Vocational Center, reallocate the total career and technical education costs of Westbrook Regional Vocational Center for fiscal year 1998-99 among the City of Westbrook and those units on the basis of the average of the percentage of the number of pupils attending Westbrook Regional Vocational Center from the City of Westbrook and each of those units on October 1, 1997 and October 1, 1998; and [1999, c. 226, §3 (NEW); 2003, c. 545, §4 (REV).]

H. Shall, for the purposes of calculating program costs for state subsidy purposes for the fiscal year 2001-02 for the City of Westbrook and the other school units affiliated with Westbrook Regional Vocational Center, reallocate the total career and technical education costs of Westbrook Regional Vocational Center for fiscal year 1999-00 among the City of Westbrook and those units on the basis of the average of the percentage of the number of pupils attending Westbrook Regional Vocational Center from the City of Westbrook and each of those units on October 1, 1998 and October 1, 1999. [1999, c. 226, §3 (NEW); 2003, c. 545, §4 (REV).]

[ 2005, c. 2, Pt. D, §§72, 74 (AFF); 2005, c. 2, Pt. D, §26 (AMD); 2005, c. 12, Pt. WW, §18 (AFF) .]

4. Cost-sharing agreement; amend. The commissioner may approve an amendment to the cost-sharing agreement of a career and technical education center, adopted by the participating school units, that provides that the costs of the career and technical education center must be reallocated among the participating school units for the purposes of calculating the state subsidy to those units for not more than 2 years in order to ease the transition to a new cost-sharing agreement.

[ 1999, c. 226, §4 (NEW); 2003, c. 545, §5 (REV) .]

SECTION HISTORY

1981, c. 693, §§5,8 (NEW). 1989, c. 414, §20 (AMD). 1989, c. 540, §§2,3 (AMD). 1989, c. 878, §A45 (AMD). 1991, c. 518, §15 (AMD). 1991, c. 716, §§6,7 (AMD). 1999, c. 226, §§1-4 (AMD). RR 2003, c. 2, §§58,59 (COR). 2003, c. 545, §§4,5 (REV). 2005, c. 2, §§D72,74 (AFF). 2005, c. 2, §D26 (AMD). 2005, c. 12, §WW18 (AFF).