ORS 184.406 Prerequisites of grant agreement

The Director of the Oregon Department of Administrative Services may not execute a grant agreement authorized by ORS 184.404 until the director has determined that:

The City of Portland has made a written request to the director to execute and deliver the grant agreement;

A Major League Baseball franchise has agreed to locate and be based in Portland and has entered into a legally binding commitment to remain in Portland for at least the term of the grant agreement;

All funding to build the major league stadium that is not based on the grant agreement has been committed;

No grantee is both a public body and a guarantor for the repayment of bonds or other indebtedness that is to be repaid through use of grant moneys; and

The Oregon Department of Administrative Services has prepared and submitted to the Legislative Assembly a written report regarding the estimated and actual incremental baseball tax revenues relating to the following provisions of the proposed grant agreement:

The methodology for estimating the incremental baseball tax revenues;

The methodology for determining the actual incremental baseball tax revenues; and

The requirement that estimated and actual incremental baseball tax revenues be based on the Oregon personal income tax rates in effect when the grant agreement is executed or for the period for which the taxes are collected, whichever is greater, even if those rates are subsequently reduced.