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FY
2011 TOTAL GENERAL FUND EXPENDITURES |
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FY 2011 |
% OF |
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Major Categories |
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EXPENDITURES |
TOTAL |
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General Purpose Aid for Local Schools |
$842,642,113 |
29.5% |
4 & 6 |
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Medicaid/MaineCare |
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$483,312,486 |
16.9% |
4 & 6 |
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Personal Services |
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$407,400,396 |
14.2% |
1 & 4 |
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Higher Education |
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$268,331,934 |
9.4% |
6 |
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Teachers' Retirement |
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$219,061,198 |
7.7% |
2 |
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Tax Relief and Reimbursement Programs |
$22,041,997 |
0.8% |
5 |
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Debt Service |
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$113,144,014 |
4.0% |
3 |
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Other |
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$503,108,975 |
17.6% |
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Total General Fund Expenditures |
$2,859,043,111
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100.0% |
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*
Personal Services includes: |
Salaries and Wages |
266,563,254 |
9.3% |
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Retirement |
71,610,236 |
2.5% |
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Health Insurance |
57,108,240 |
2.0% |
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Other Fringe Benefits |
12,118,665 |
0.4% |
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Total |
407,400,396 |
14.2% |
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| 2 |
Teachers' Retirement includes Retired Teachers
Health and Group Life Insurance. |
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| 3 |
Debt Service includes General Obligation Debt
and all Maine Governmental Facilities Authority Debt. |
| 4 |
Medicaid excludes
Personal Services expenditures totaling $14,306,959 that would normally be
included, but are excluded here to avoid double counting the amounts in the
Personal Services group. Medicaid
administrative costs are also not included here. General Purpose Aid for Local Schools
excludes Personal Services expenditures of $1,569,971. |
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| 5 |
Expenditures for
the Maine Residents Property Tax Program (Circuit Breaker) and the Business
Equipment Tax Reimbursement (BETR) Program were accounted for as reductions
to revenue beginning in FY05 and FY06, respectively. Actual expenditures for the Maine Residents
Property Tax Program were $41,449,010 and for the BETR Program were
$55,220,851 in FY11. Beginning in
FY09, the Municipal Business Equipment Tax Exemption Reimbursement program
(BETE) began with its expenditures also recorded as revenue reductions. BETE Program expenditures totaled
$17,264,724 in FY11. |
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In FY11, federal
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) funding allowed
reductions to General Fund expenditures for General Purpose Aid for Local
Schools of $56,338,354 and Higher Education by $10,866,299. Medicaid/MaineCare expenditures were also
reduced significantly by the availability of ARRA funds through enhance
matching rates. Total savings in
Medicaid/MaineCare for all funds totaled $198,997,106. |
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