Following the statutory increase in the Original Threshold Amount that took effect on July 1, 2009, and using the procedures in 965 CMR 4.03, the Department employed the following calculations in arriving at new Privatization Threshold Amounts:

Avg. CPI Percent Percent Change New Privatization Threshold (effective

Year

Dec-Nov Change in Dollars January 1st the following year)

The calculation was not used in 2009 because doing so would have

2009 214.071

resulted in a threshold below the statutory threshold of $500,000.

2010 217.828 1.76% $8,775 $508,775 2011 224.385 3.01% $15,316 $524,091 2012 229.267 2.18% $11,403 $535,494