DECISION SUMMARY: "Maintenance of effort funding," section 211.393.6, RSMo 2000, is a minimum level of funding required of each affected county. Following Stone County v. Thirty-Ninth Judicial Circuit, a grant position does not create an applicable exception and is not "outside" the scope of this decision. As such, the deputy juvenile officer's funding request for the second half of budget year 2001 is unreasonable.