1. (1) For each Funding Cycle, the Department shall provide State Matching Grants to Districts from designated resources in the Oregon School Capital Improvement Matching Account. The Department shall determine and apportion the amount of funds available divided among the Funding Cycles in each biennium. The total amount of State Matching Grant funds available and awarded by the Department may vary during each Funding Cycle.
2. (2) The Department shall post on its website the amounts that will be available for OSCIM Grants for each Funding Cycle within a reasonable time after the Legislature determines the level of funding for the Oregon School Capital Improvement Matching Account.
3. (3) If the Legislature does not determine the amount of funding for the Oregon School Capital Improvement Matching Account until after the application period opens for a given Funding Cycle, the application period will run as normal. However, any posting of results will be delayed until such time as the Legislature determines the amount of funding for the Oregon School Capital Improvement Matching Account.
4. (4) If the Legislature does not appropriate any funds for the OSCIM Program for a biennium, or any part of the biennium, then the OSCIM Program will cancel open application periods and future application periods until funding is restored.
5. (5) Sixty-six percent (66%) of designated grant resources in the Oregon School Capital Improvement Matching Account shall be awarded based on the Priority List.
6. (6) The Priority List shall be based on a District’s Assessed Value, Percentage of Students in Poverty, and Average Daily Membership.
7. (7) The Department shall update the Priority List every biennium. The Priority List will be updated no later than June 1 before the start of the next biennium. The updated Priority List will be effective at the start of the next biennium. To update the list, the Department will use the data from the most recent year for which all three sources have reported actual data.

8. (8) The Priority List shall be calculated as follows:

   1. (a) The District’s Students in Poverty shall be multiplied by twenty (20) to determine the Weighted Number of Students in Poverty.
   2. (b) The District’s Weighted Number of Students in Poverty shall be divided by the District’s Extended ADMw less virtual charter school enrollment to arrive at the District’s Weighted Percentage of Students in Poverty.
   3. (c) The District’s Assessed Value shall be divided by one (1) plus the Weighted Percentage of Students in Poverty to determine the District’s Adjusted Assessed Property Value per ADM.
   4. (d) The Districts will be ranked from the lowest Adjusted Assessed Property Value per ADM to the highest.

Statutory/Other Authority

SB 447 (2015)

Statutes/Other Implemented

SB 285 (2023) & ORS 286A.796 - ORS 286.806

History

ODE 35-2025, amend filed 06/18/2025, effective 06/18/2025
ODE 2-2024, amend filed 02/16/2024, effective 02/16/2024
ODE 42-2020, amend filed 10/22/2020, effective 10/22/2020
ODE 21-2019, amend filed 06/25/2019, effective 06/25/2019
ODE 7-2017, f. & cert. ef. 6-1-17
ODE 4-2017, f. & cert. ef. 3-1-17
ODE 30-2016, f. & cert. ef. 4-28-16