617 - Maintenance of effort.
§ 617. Maintenance of effort. Such amount of state aid provided will be used to support and to the extent practicable, to increase the level of funds that would otherwise be made available for such purposes and not to supplant the amount to be provided by the municipalities. If a municipality that is provided state aid pursuant to title one of this article reduces its expenditures beneath the amount expended in its base year, which is the greater of its expenditures in its fiscal year ending in either nineteen hundred eighty-five or the most recent fiscal year for which the municipality has filed an annual expenditure report to the department, state aid reimbursement provided pursuant to subdivision one of section six hundred five of this article will be reduced by the difference between the reduction in local expenditures between its base year and its current fiscal year and the reduction in state aid between the base year and the current fiscal year pursuant to paragraphs (a) and (b) of subdivision two of section six hundred five of this article. A municipality may include revenue, excluding third party reimbursement, raised by the municipality in calculating its maintenance of effort.