MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                                  729

AND THE RESULTING QUOTIENT SHALL BE ROUNDED TO SIX
DECIMAL PLACES AND THEN EXPRESSED AS A PERCENTAGE. THIS
PERCENTAGE FIGURE SHALL BE KNOWN AS THE UNIFORM
PERCENTAGE.

(4)          FOURTH: A CALCULATION SHALL BE MADE FOR
EACH COUNTY BY MULTIPLYING THE WEALTH OF THAT COUNTY BY
THE UNIFORM PERCENTAGE.        THE PRODUCT IS THE INITIAL
REQUIRED LOCAL CONTRIBUTION OF THE COUNTY TO THE EXCESS
COST PROGRAM. THIS INITIAL REQUIRED LOCAL CONTRIBUTION
SHALL, FOR EACH COUNTY, BE SUBTRACTED FROM THE INITIAL
TOTAL EXCESS COST PROGRAM FOR THE COUNTY, DETERMINED IN
ACCORDANCE WITH SUBSECTION (C)(2), AND THE REMAINDER
SHALL CONSTITUTE THE INITIAL REQUIRED STATE CONTRIBUTION
TO THE COUNTY FOR THE PROGRAM.

(5)          FIFTH: THE INITIAL REQUIRED LOCAL
CONTRIBUTION AND THE INITIAL REQUIRED STATE CONTRIBUTION
TO THE EXCESS COST PROGRAM FOR EACH OF THE RESPECTIVE
COUNTIES, DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBSECTION
(C)(4), SHALL BE MULTIPLIED BY [[THE APPROPRIATE
FOLLOWING INDEX]]

AN INDEX CALCULATED FOR THAT COUNTY AS FOLLOWS: (A)

THE FISCAL YEAR 1976 EXCESS COST OF SPECIAL EDUCATION

SHALL BE DETERMINED FOR EACH COUNTY BY ADDING THE 1976

COUNTY BASE AND STATE BASE, AS SET FORTH IN SECTION

106E-4(C)(1); (B) FOR EACH COUNTY, THIS FISCAL YEAR 1976

EXCESS COST OF SPECIAL EDUCATION SHALL BE DIVIDED BY

NUMBER OF PUPILS ENROLLED IN THE COUNTY AS OF SEPTEMBER

30, 1975. THE QUOTIENT IS THE COUNTY'S PER PUPIL EXCESS
COST OF SPECIAL EDUCATION FOR FISCAL YEAR 1976; (C) THESE
COUNTY PER PUPIL EXCESS COST FIGURES SHALL THEN BE RANKED
IN ORDER FROM THE HIGHEST TO THE LOWEST; (D) A MEDIAN PER

PUPIL EXCESS COST SHALL THEN BE DETERMINED BY ADDING

TOGETHER THE FIGURES FOR THE TWELFTH BANKED COUNTY AND

THE THIRTEENTH RANKED COUNTY. AND DIVIDING THE SUM BY

TWO; (E) THE MEDIAN PEP PUPIL EXCESS COST SHALL BE GIVEN
AN INDEX NUMBER OF 1.000; (F) EACH COUNTY HAVING A FISCAL

YEAR 1976 PER PUPIL EXCESS COST OF SPECIAL EDUCATION

EQUAL TO OR LESS THAN THE MEDIAN SHALL ALSO BE GIVEN AN

INDEX NUMBER OF 1.000. EACH COUNTY HAVING A FISCAL YEAR

1976 PER PUPIL EXCESS COST OF SPECIAL EDUCATION GREATER

THAN THE MEDIAN SHALL BE GIVEN AN INDEX NUMBER CALCULATED
BY DIVIDING ITS PER PUPIL EXCESS COST BY THE MEDIAN PER

PUPIL EXCESS COST AND ROUNDING THE QUOTIENT TO THREE

DECIMAL PLACES. THE APPROPRIATE INDICES BY COUNTY ARE AS
FOLLOWS::

(I)          ALLEGANY,           BALTIMORE            COUNTY,
CALVERT, CAROLINE, CARROLL, CECIL, FREDERICK, HARFORD,
SOMERSET, WASHINGTON, WICOMICO, AND WORCESTER; 1.000;

(II)       ANNE ARUNDEL: [[1.235]] 1.276;

(III)    BALTIMORE CITY: [[1.9941] 2.061;

(IV)       CHARLES: [[ 1.097]] 1.347;