Oregon Revised Statutes
As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: “Academic year” means the year beginning July 1 of each year and ending June 30 of the following year running concurrently with the fiscal year. “Board” means the board of education of a community college district. “Board member” means a member of the board of education of a community college…
The Legislative Assembly finds that: The community college is an educational institution that is intended to fill the institutional gap in education by offering broad, comprehensive programs in academic subjects and in career and technical education subjects. It is primarily designed to provide associate or certificate degree programs for some, serve a tran…
Each community college operated under ORS chapter 341 that offers a form of associate degree, including an Associate of Arts Transfer degree or an Associate of Science Transfer degree, that either requires or permits a student to take a cluster of courses in the social sciences as part of the course of study necessary to obtain the associate degree may allow…
As used in this section: “Applied baccalaureate degree” has the meaning given that term in ORS 348.910. “Bachelor of Science: Nursing degree” means a post-licensure degree program in which individuals who have already received an associate degree in nursing receive a bachelor’s degree in nursing. A community college may offer applied baccalaureate degrees…
The Higher Education Coordinating Commission shall adopt guidelines for the orderly development and management of community college districts, including guidelines for personnel policy formulation, student record keeping and privacy procedures.
DIRECT AND CONTRACT SERVICES
All areas within this state shall be served by a community college district. Such services may be provided either: Directly by formation of a community college district; or Indirectly by contract with an existing community college district. The Office of Community Colleges and Workforce Development shall fix responsibility for serving each area that is no…
The Office of Community Colleges and Workforce Development shall invite existing community college districts to submit proposals for the provision of service to an area that has officially indicated its interest in receiving service. The responsibilities of the host community college district shall include: Preparing a written agreement for services to be …
Annual state reimbursable enrollments under an agreement with a nondistrict area shall not exceed 300 full-time equivalent students.
The Higher Education Coordinating Commission shall adopt rules to implement ORS 341.019 to 341.024. The rules shall provide: Standards for accepting proposals for service; Procedures providing the form of agreements and for recording them; Standards for cash and in-kind contributions by nondistrict areas; Standards as required by ORS 341.019 (4); and Ot…
Whenever the electors registered in contiguous territory desire the formation of a community college district, they may sign a petition requesting the formation of such a district and present it to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission. The petition must be substantially in the form established by the commission, which shall furnish the petition form…
A petition submitted pursuant to ORS 341.025 may specify that the proposed district be organized as a community college service district. The formation of a community college service district shall comply with the provisions of ORS 341.025 to 341.125. A petition affecting a territory that, in the judgment of the Director of the Office of Community Colleges a…
Notwithstanding ORS 341.039 (3) and (4), on July 1, 2001, all community college service districts formed prior to July 1, 1997, shall become community college districts and on and after July 1, 2001, shall operate as community college districts.
The Higher Education Coordinating Commission shall make available to the public on the commission’s website a record of the boundaries of all community college districts and community college service districts in this state.
The Higher Education Coordinating Commission shall examine the petition to determine whether it is complete. If the petition is complete and if formation of the district is consistent with the overall plan for all education in the state, the commission shall undertake a study of the feasibility of a community college in the geographical area proposed by the …
At the time designated in the notice given under ORS 341.045, the Higher Education Coordinating Commission or its authorized representative shall conduct a public hearing on the study and may adjourn the hearing from time to time. The commission may alter the boundaries set forth in the petition submitted under ORS 341.025 to include all territory the reside…
If, in the opinion of the Higher Education Coordinating Commission, the study conducted under ORS 341.045 and the testimony presented at the hearing or hearings held under ORS 341.055 indicate that the formation of a community college district as petitioned is not warranted under the policies set forth by ORS 341.009, the commission shall order dismissal of …
If, upon final hearing under ORS 341.055, the Higher Education Coordinating Commission approves formation of a community college district, with boundaries either as originally presented or as altered pursuant to the hearing, the commission shall make its recommendation to the Legislative Assembly in an order describing the exterior boundaries and the zone bo…
An election for the purpose of presenting the question of formation of a district and establishing a permanent rate limit for operating taxes and the boundaries of the zones, if the zones were recommended by the Higher Education Coordinating Commission, shall be held to submit the question to the electors registered in the proposed district designated in the…
The Higher Education Coordinating Commission shall include as a part of the election called for formation of a district the question of a permanent rate limit for operating taxes to finance the district’s share of operating and capital expenses. The rate limit shall be specified by the commission as a result of its study and the hearing held under ORS 341.05…
If the Legislative Assembly approves the recommendation submitted under ORS 341.076, 341.565 or 341.579, the Legislative Assembly shall appropriate to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission for the purpose of allocation to the Office of Community Colleges and Workforce Development moneys necessary to pay the expenses of the election under ORS 341.085, …
When at the request of the Higher Education Coordinating Commission the county clerk of the principal county, in consultation with county clerks of the affected counties, prepares a list or lists of names and addresses of the electors registered in the proposed district, the Office of Community Colleges and Workforce Development is authorized to pay the char…
If the vote is in favor of the formation of the community college district and establishes a permanent rate limit for operating taxes for the district, the Higher Education Coordinating Commission: Shall proclaim the commission’s determination from the election results that a community college district has been formed; and Shall furnish any affected county…
Except as provided in ORS 255.400 to 255.424: The first board of education of a district shall be elected at the same election as the election at which votes are cast for the formation of the district. Nominations for the board of education positions to be filled by nomination and election at-large shall be made by petition requesting that such person’s nam…
(Zones)
Except as provided in ORS 255.400 to 255.424, the board shall adjust the boundaries of zones established within a district as necessary to make them as nearly equal in population as is feasible according to the latest federal census. The board also shall adjust boundaries of zones as necessary to reflect boundary changes of the district.
Except as provided in ORS 255.400 to 255.424, any elector of a district aggrieved by the adjustment of or failure to adjust boundaries of a zone pursuant to ORS 341.175 on the basis that population is not as nearly equal as is feasible is entitled to appear before the board at a public hearing to present the case. If the board refuses to make the requested a…
DISTRICT BOARDS (Composition)
The board shall be composed of seven members. No person who is an employee of the community college district shall be eligible to serve as a member of the board for the district by which the employee is employed.
(Organization)
After July 1 of each year, the board of a district shall meet and organize by electing a chairperson and a vice chairperson from its members. The board shall provide for the time and place of its regular meetings, at any of which it may adjourn to the next succeeding regular meeting or to some specified time prior thereto. Special meetings shall be convened…
(Status)
Districts are bodies corporate, and the board is authorized to sue and be sued in the corporate name. The members of the board of a district in their official capacity shall be known as the board of education of the community college district. (Powers)
The board of education of a community college district shall be responsible for the general supervision and control of any and all community colleges operated by the district. Consistent with any applicable rules of the Higher Education Coordinating Commission, the board of education of a community college district may: Subject to ORS chapters 238 and 238A,…
The board may adopt such regulations as it considers necessary to provide for the policing, control and regulations of traffic and parking of vehicles on property under the jurisdiction of the board. Such regulations may provide for the registration of vehicles, the designation and posting of parking areas, and the assessment and collection of reasonable fee…
Subject to the Local Budget Law (ORS 294.305 to 294.565) and sections 11 and 11b, Article XI of the Oregon Constitution, each community college district shall prepare annually an estimate of the amount of funds necessary to carry out the purposes of the district and may levy a tax upon all assessable property in the district.
A community college district, upon approval of a majority of the electors voting upon the question at the election held to approve formation of a district, may certify operating taxes to the assessor under ORS 310.060 that are within the district’s permanent rate limit established under ORS 341.095.
A community college district may enter into discussions with county governments or other similar county-wide public organizations in bordering states for the purpose of discussing the feasibility of establishing interstate taxing authority for the district through an interstate agreement entered into pursuant to ORS 190.410 to 190.440. Any such agreement sha…
A board may obtain by condemnation the title to any land it is authorized to acquire. Condemnation proceedings instituted by the board shall be conducted in accordance with and subject to the provisions of ORS chapter 35 except that the relator therein shall be the board.
A board of education of a community college district may operate a self-insurance program to provide its employees with health insurance benefits. A board may operate a self-insurance program under this section for liability covering all activities of the community college district and for health insurance benefits for students engaging in athletic contests…
Any school district, education service district, institution of higher education, county, municipality or private organization may contract with a community college district to provide services of an educational nature that are subject to the approval of the Higher Education Coordinating Commission.
Reimbursement from the Community College Support Fund established in ORS 341.620 may be made available to community colleges that deliver educational services to adults in custody confined to the state-operated correctional facilities and to locally operated correctional facilities. The reimbursement shall be distributed as directed in ORS 341.626 and the ru…
A board may acquire by gift or by purchase interests in intellectual property of any kind, whether patentable or copyrightable or not, including patents, copyrights, inventions, discoveries, processes and ideas. The board may also agree to aid in the development of property acquired pursuant to this section and to pay an assignor of any interest in intellect…
Notwithstanding any other statutory provisions, any board of education of a community college district by resolution may establish a reserve fund by making transfers from the district’s general fund. Transfers to the reserve fund shall be included in the district budget prepared and published in accordance with ORS 294.305 to 294.565. If at any time conditio…
(Nomination and Election)
Except as provided in ORS 255.400 to 255.424: At each regular district election, board members shall be elected for a term of four years to succeed the board members whose terms of office expire on June 30 of that year. A person shall be qualified to be a candidate for election to the board if the person is an elector who resides in the district. If the di…
Except as provided in ORS 255.400 to 255.424: The board members may be elected in one of the following methods or a combination thereof: Elected by electors of zones as nearly equal in population as possible according to the latest federal census. Elected at large by position number by the electors of the district. Candidates for election from zones shal…
Except as provided in ORS 255.400 to 255.424: This section establishes the procedure for determining whether the method adopted in a district for nominating and electing board members should be changed to another method described in ORS 341.327. The question shall be decided by election. The district board shall order an election on the question when a peti…
The board shall declare the office of a board member vacant if it finds any of the following: The incumbent has died or resigned. The incumbent has been removed or recalled from office or the election of the incumbent thereto has been declared void by the judgment of a court. The incumbent has ceased to be a resident of the district from which the incumbe…
The positions of board members elected at-large, and their respective successors in office, shall be designated by numbers as Position No. 1, Position No. 2, and so on. This section applies to any district that elects any board member to an at-large position.
Position numbers for board members elected at-large, and their respective successors in office in the event of vacancies before the expiration of their terms, in districts changing the method of election of any of the board members shall be determined by drawing by the affected board members under the supervision of the county clerk of the principal county. …
ELECTIONS GENERALLY
Except as provided in ORS 255.400 to 255.424: ORS chapter 255 governs the following: The nomination and election of board members. The conduct of district elections. The electors of a community college district may exercise the powers of the initiative and referendum regarding a district measure, in accordance with ORS 255.135 to 255.205. ORS 249.865 to…
Except as provided by ORS chapter 255 and ORS 294.448 (Local Budget Law) and 341.670, notice of community college district organization and merger, community college district budgets and community college district purchasing shall be given only as provided in this section. Whenever notice is required, the board shall cause the notice to be published in one …
The board may call a special election upon questions as to the issuance of bonds, the levy of taxes which may not be levied without the affirmative vote of the people and any other questions which may be submitted to the electors of such districts.
Any of the questions to be submitted to the electors of any district must be submitted in the form of a resolution of its board. The resolution shall specify the questions to be voted upon and the date for holding any special election. The board may adopt any such resolution on its own motion, and must adopt the resolution when petitioned by the requisite nu…
During the period following an election or other action resulting in a boundary change in a district and prior to the date the change becomes effective, the district or districts from which an area will be separated as a result of the boundary change may hold elections for all legal purposes but the electors registered in the area to be separated as a result…
Upon approval of the Higher Education Coordinating Commission, a community college may be established by a community college district in which all the requirements for formation of the district are met and for which adequate building space, library and suitable laboratory or shop space for the courses to be offered are available or will be available before c…
The official name of every community college shall include the words “community college.”
Subject to the requirements of subsection (2) of this section, the name of any community college district or community college may be changed by resolution of the district board of education. The district board shall submit the proposed name change to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission for its approval or disapproval. If the proposed name change is…
(Programs and Courses)
A community college district may contract with another community college district, a common or union high school district, an education service district, a public university listed in ORS 352.002, the Oregon Health and Science University, a private educational institution accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities or its successor or…
Notwithstanding any other provision of law and except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, the Department of Corrections may enter into agreements to offer academic programs to adults in custody with: An academic program at any community college operated under this chapter, including a community college that is located outside of the boundaries of…
If a community college offers a program of instruction in aviation maintenance that takes place in a neighboring state at an airport owned and operated pursuant to an agreement between a city in this state and a county in the neighboring state, course work by students in the program shall be deemed to have occurred within this state and may be considered as …
At the beginning of each school year, the Office of Community Colleges and Workforce Development shall make the following information available for distribution to public school students who are in grades 11 and 12: The academic programs and services provided by community colleges; Recommendations for successful completion of community college programs; an…
Every community college district shall encourage high school students to start early on a college education by: Implementing a dual credit program, a two-plus-two program or another accelerated college credit program and making at least one such program available to each interested school district that is within the boundaries of the community college distr…
A community college may give credit for courses or programs taken in a career school. The courses or programs for which credit may be given must meet the standards adopted by the Higher Education Coordinating Commission under ORS 345.325, must be taken at a career school domiciled in this state and must be approved for credit by the Director of the Office of…
A community college offering a traffic safety education course under ORS 336.795 to 336.815 shall give no credit for completion thereof and time spent by students on such courses shall not be considered as clock hours of instruction in determining full-time equivalency for purposes of ORS 341.626.
If a board of education of a community college determines that enrollment is sufficient to make an American Sign Language class economically viable and if qualified instructors are available, the board may offer to students courses for credit in American Sign Language. Such courses shall satisfy any second language elective requirement. Note: 341.463 was en…
The board of a district operating a community college, upon approval of the Higher Education Coordinating Commission, may award certificates and associate degrees indicating satisfactory completion of a course of study offered by the community college. The board of a district operating a community college may award training certificates indicating satisfact…
As used in this section, “mandatory student-initiated fee” means a fee that: Is initiated by the recognized student government of the community college; Students are required to pay in addition to tuition fees; Is collected by the board of the community college; and Is allocated by the recognized student government of the community college. The board fo…
A community college district may establish a student loan fund and apply to and receive from the federal government such grants or loans as may be available for such loans.
In addition to any other scholarships provided by law, the board may award tuition and fee-exempting scholarships in the college to students applying for enrollment or who are enrolled in the college. Scholarships shall be awarded on the basis of the student’s: Demonstrated ability to profit either from career and technical education or from college transf…
A district shall admit high school graduates who are residents of Oregon and may admit other residents who, in the judgment of the administration of the district, are capable of profiting from the instruction offered in a specific course or program without regard to age. In the case of a student younger than 16 years of age, the college administration shall …
In the event of an agreement between two colleges to admit each other’s students, if the student seeking admission to the community college resides within that college’s district, no additional reimbursement shall be required from any college district. However, if the student does not reside within the district, a contract of reimbursement may be entered int…
Community colleges in Oregon shall admit students from other states at the same tuition rate assessed against Oregon residents who are residents of the community college district if: The state in which the student resides agrees to pay and pays its per capita state aid for comparable students in the state to the community college; The state in which the st…
The provisions of ORS 341.487 shall not apply to admissions arranged under ORS 350.750. For purposes of ORS 341.626, and notwithstanding ORS 341.487, students who are residents of Idaho, Washington, California and Nevada and students admitted pursuant to ORS 350.750 shall be considered as residents of Oregon.
As used in this section: “Active member of the Armed Forces of the United States” includes officers and enlisted personnel of the Armed Forces of the United States who: Reside in this state while assigned to duty at any base, station, shore establishment or other facility in this state; Reside in this state while serving as members of the crew of a ship t…
A student at a community college who is a member of the military, a member of the commissioned corps of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration or a member of the Public Health Service of the United States Department of Health and Human Services detailed by proper authority for duty with the Army or Navy of the United States and who is ordered to…
The amount of the credit specified in ORS 341.499 (1)(b) shall be based on: The amount of room and board paid by the student for a term that the student does not complete because the student is ordered to active duty; and The amount of tuition and fees paid by the student for a course from which the student withdraws. The amount of the credit shall be pro…
The board of education of each community college district, in consultation with the Department of Veterans’ Affairs, shall develop standards for the community college of the district to implement to give credit for education and training obtained by a person while the person served in the Armed Forces of the United States, as defined in ORS 341.496. The comm…
As used in this section: “Child” means a child, adopted child or stepchild of a service member. “Community college” has the meaning given that term in ORS 341.005. “Qualified student” means a child, a spouse or an unremarried surviving spouse of a service member. “Service member” means a person who: As a member of the Armed Forces of the United States, …
The board of education of a community college district shall direct each community college under its control to waive tuition for any course audited by an Oregon resident 65 years of age or older if: Space is available in the course for additional students to register after tuition-paying students have registered; The department in which the course is bein…
The Office of Student Access and Completion shall administer the Oregon Promise program as provided by this section. Subject to subsections (7) to (10) of this section, the office shall provide a grant for community college courses to a person who meets the criteria described in subsections (3) to (6) of this section. The grant shall be limited as provided …
The Office of Community Colleges and Workforce Development and the Higher Education Coordinating Commission shall jointly establish a grant program for the purpose of distributing moneys to community colleges, or any foundations of community colleges, to increase the number of underserved, low-income and first-generation college-bound students who enroll in …
(Employees)
Community college faculty are not required to have teaching licenses. Notwithstanding ORS 342.173, community college faculty who provide instruction in cooperation with a school district for academic, career and technical education, school-to-work or other work-related programs under ORS chapter 329 are not required to have teaching licenses. If the faculty…
Each community college shall consider and maintain affirmative action plans and goals when reductions in faculty and staff are required as a result of: Reductions in revenue that necessitate discontinuance of its educational program at its anticipated level; Elimination of classes due to decreased student enrollment; or Reduction in courses due to adminis…
Each community college board shall give an individual, written notice of reasonable assurance of continued employment to all employees who are to perform services in the same or a similar capacity during a subsequent academic year or term or in the period immediately following a recess period. The notice shall be given by May 30 of each year for employees em…
Notwithstanding any provision of ORS chapter 238 or 238A, the Office of Community Colleges and Workforce Development may establish and administer an optional retirement plan for administrative employees of community college districts who are eligible for membership in the Public Employees Retirement System. Any community college district may participate in t…
The board of a community college may authorize receipt of compensation for any faculty member from private or public resources, including, but not limited to, income from: Consulting; Appearances and speeches; Intellectual property conceived, reduced to practice or originated and therefore owned within the community college; Providing services or other v…
BOUNDARY CHANGES
The Higher Education Coordinating Commission shall constitute the boundary board for making any changes in the boundaries of community college districts. The commission on its own motion or on petition from a petitioning territory may propose changes in the boundaries of a community college district. The commission must find that the proposed change will hav…
The Higher Education Coordinating Commission shall submit the question of a proposed boundary change to a vote if: The commission enters the order to revise the boundaries of a community college district; A remonstrance is filed with the commission within 20 days after the date on which the commission enters the order; The remonstrance is signed by at lea…
When changes in district boundaries are made by the detachment of territory or an annexation of territory and another community college district is affected, the boards of the districts shall make an equitable division of the then existing assets and liabilities between the districts affected by such change and provide the manner of consummating the division…
When territory is annexed to or merged with a community college district, the new territory shall become liable for its share of the existing debt of the community college district. When territory is detached from a community college district, the detached territory shall remain liable for its share of the bonded indebtedness assumed by the community colleg…
Except as provided in ORS 255.400 to 255.424: Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, when the new territory annexed to an existing community college district is greater in population than the original territory, based upon the latest federal census, the provisions of this section shall govern the community college district for a period of not …
The Higher Education Coordinating Commission shall submit the question of any boundary change pertaining to a community college district subject to ORS 341.577 to a vote of the electors held the same day in both the original territory and the new territory. If the proposed boundary change is defeated in either territory, the same or a substantially similar …
EXPANSION OF COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICTS
As used in ORS 341.604 to 341.618: “District” means the: Blue Mountain Community College District, a political subdivision and municipal corporation of the state organized pursuant to this chapter; Columbia Gorge Community College District, a political subdivision and municipal corporation of the state organized pursuant to this chapter; Rogue Community …
The Blue Mountain Community College District and the Rogue Community College District may expand as provided by this section. If expansion of the Blue Mountain Community College District or the Rogue Community College District is approved by the voters, the Legislative Assembly shall: For the Blue Mountain Community College District, classify and designate…
Subject to restrictions in the Oregon Constitution and subsection (2) of this section, any of the methods of financing authorized under this chapter or any other provision of law that is available to community college districts organized pursuant to this chapter may, in the discretion of the district board, be implemented in the district or in one or more se…
An election shall be held to determine if a district may contract a bonded indebtedness for the benefit of the district or a service area or combination of service areas of the district. If the bonded indebtedness is for the benefit of the district, all district voters residing within the boundaries of the district are entitled to vote in the election. If t…
Following authorization from the voters of a district or a service area or combination of service areas of the district, the district board may contract a bonded indebtedness to be paid by a tax levy on the taxable property within the district or the service area or service areas for any one or more of the purposes set forth in ORS 341.675. Any land acquired…
The district board shall ascertain and levy annually, in addition to all other taxes, a direct ad valorem tax on all the taxable property within the district if the district approved bonded indebtedness or within the affected service area or combination of service areas if the service area or combination of service areas approved bonded indebtedness. The ad …
Except to the extent that they are inconsistent with the provisions of ORS 341.604 to 341.618 or rules adopted thereunder, the provisions of ORS 341.675 to 341.715 shall apply to bonds authorized pursuant to ORS 341.604 to 341.618 and to taxes levied to pay such bonds.
Notwithstanding ORS 341.575, when territory is annexed to the Blue Mountain Community College District, the new territory shall not become liable for any existing debt of the Blue Mountain Community College District that resulted from the bond measure that was approved by the people at the general election held on November 3, 1998. Notwithstanding ORS 341.5…
There is established a Community College Support Fund in the General Fund.
Subject to rules adopted by the Higher Education Coordinating Commission and to ORS 291.232 to 291.260, the Director of the Office of Community Colleges and Workforce Development shall distribute state aid to each community college district and community college service district. The rules adopted by the commission shall provide: No state aid for hobby and…
In determining the amount of apportionment to the community college from the General Fund under ORS 341.626, tuition and fees allowed for scholarships authorized by ORS 341.478 shall be considered as paid by the student. The district shall include the high school student attending the community college in determining the number of equivalent full-time stude…
As used in this section, “approved expenses” means the operating expenses of community college districts for career and technical education programs that have been approved by the Director of the Office of Community Colleges and Workforce Development. Federal moneys received for purposes of reimbursing community college districts for career and technical ed…
A community college district that operates a free public library pursuant to ORS 357.410 shall not include or reflect the operating or construction costs attributable to such library that are in addition to the costs otherwise incurred for library facilities or services for the community college in any computation of eligibility for state aid for operation o…
The receiving community college shall be awarded funds from the contracted out-of-district funds allocated to the Office of Community Colleges and Workforce Development if the college operates the program under a contract with an apprenticeship training committee and the contract is approved by the office. A community college district may submit full-time e…
The community college districts of this state shall use the same system for reporting finances. The Office of Community Colleges and Workforce Development shall: Select the system, which may be an existing system; and Provide guidelines for implementation of the system. The system selected by the office shall include uniform identification of: Funds; R…
A community college district may contract a bonded indebtedness for any one or more of the following purposes in and for the district: To acquire, construct, reconstruct, improve, repair, equip or furnish a college building or buildings or additions thereto; To acquire or to improve all property, real and personal, appurtenant thereto or connected therewit…
To determine whether a community college district should contract a bonded indebtedness for any one or more purposes described in ORS 341.675, the question shall be decided by election. The district board may order the election on its own motion or shall order the election if a petition is filed as provided in this section. The requirements for preparing, c…
If the electors of the district voting on the question of contracting bonded indebtedness approve the question, the board of the district may issue bonds of the district.
The paying agent and registrar, appointed in accordance with ORS 287A.300 (1) to (3), shall register each community college district bond, including refunding bonds, in a record maintained for that purpose in the office of the paying agent and registrar, noting the community college district, amount, date, time and place of payment, rate of interest and such…
The board of the district shall ascertain and levy annually, in addition to all other taxes, a direct ad valorem tax on all the taxable property in the district, sufficient to pay the maturing interest and principal of all community college district bonds outstanding promptly when and as such payments become due. The amount of the tax may be increased by an …
The paying agent and registrar must cause to be paid out of any money in the hands of the paying agent and registrar belonging to the community college district, the interest on or principal of, as the case may be, any bond issued by the district promptly when and as the same becomes due at the place of payment designated in such coupons or bonds. All coupon…
Whenever the sinking fund mentioned in ORS 341.690 equals the amount, principal and interest, of any bond then due or subject at the option of the district to be paid or redeemed when authorized by the board of the district, the paying agent and registrar shall notify the holder of such bond and publish a notice in the newspaper published in the district in …
Whenever any community college district has any outstanding bonded indebtedness, which is due or subject at the option of the district to be paid or redeemed, the district, by and through the board of the district, may: Issue and exchange, for any such indebtedness, its bonds bearing the rate of interest determined by the board pursuant to ORS 287A.300 (1) …
All legally authorized and issued general obligation bonds or revenue bonds shall be issued as prescribed in ORS chapter 287A. (Custody and Expenditure of Funds)
The board of a community college district shall designate a custodian of funds of the district. Funds shall be disbursed only in the manner provided by subsection (3) of this section. For the purpose of receiving deposits of community college funds, the board of the district shall designate such bank or banks, as the board deems safe and proper depositories…
As used in this section, “community college district obligation” includes salaries of district employees and other regularly contracted services. Warrants in payment of district obligations shall be issued only when there are insufficient funds to pay the warrant and shall be indorsed “not paid for want of funds.” Warrants may be issued at the end of each m…
The board of a community college district shall cause to have prepared an annual audit of the books and accounts of the district, including but not limited to student body funds, athletic funds, cafeteria funds, and other similar funds collected by the college. The audit statements must be filed with the administrative office for the district on or before De…
(Short-Term Bonds)
As provided by ORS 287A.180, the board of a community college district may contract indebtedness by the issuance of short-term bonds for the purpose of meeting current expenses, retiring outstanding bonds or warrants, or paying the interest thereon. The board of the district in which indebtedness was incurred under this section shall levy an annual tax on a…
(Bonds Issued by State)
To provide funds to community college districts for the purposes specified in Article XI-G of the Oregon Constitution, the State Treasurer may issue bonds under ORS 286A.848.
The Community College Capital Construction Fund is established in the State Treasury, separate and distinct from the General Fund. Interest earned on moneys in the Community College Capital Construction Fund shall be credited to the fund. Moneys in the Community College Capital Construction Fund are continuously appropriated to the Higher Education Coordina…
The Community College Bond Building Fund is established in the State Treasury, separate and distinct from the General Fund. The Community College Bond Building Fund shall consist of moneys realized from the sale of bonds issued pursuant to Article XI-G of the Oregon Constitution and ORS 286A.848 for the benefit of community colleges. Moneys in the Communit…
AID FOR CONSTRUCTION
The Higher Education Coordinating Commission shall adopt by rule standards governing the distribution of state funds to community college districts for capital construction projects. The standards shall include, but need not be limited to, the following provisions: No state funds shall be used for the construction of student or faculty housing, facilities f…
In preparing an agency request budget for each biennium, after consultation with the community colleges and their respective representatives of the community of persons with disabilities at the colleges, the Higher Education Coordinating Commission shall include amounts for capital improvements that will be applied to the substantial reduction and eventual e…
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