Revised Subsidy Reports

INFORMATIONAL LETTER: 92
POLICY CODE: DBE

TO: Superintendents of Schools
FROM: Susan A. Gendron, Commissioner
DATE: April 17, 2009
RE: Revised Subsidy Reports

We were made aware on Thursday of an error in the calculations used to produce the preliminary ED-279s that were mailed to school administrative units (SAUs) earlier this week. The error pertains to the size of the reduced state subsidy for non-conforming units – those units that did not reorganize.

The programming error affected one portion of the calculation for non-conforming units that are regular subsidy receivers – about 90 SAUs in total. It does not affect minimum subsidy receivers, RSUs, AOSs, or units with an approved Alternate Plan. We are working to complete the corrected calculations by the end of today and will send revised reports to the affected units only, as the error does not affect calculations for other school systems.

A spreadsheet showing the affected units and the amount of change will be posted by the end of business today on the School Administrative Reorganization website at www.maine.gov/education/reorg .

We apologize for the error.