Franchise agreements are a legal arrangement between a city and another entity for use of the city’s public right-of-way. For using the right-of-way (abbreviated ROW) a company, organization, or other government body must pay a franchise fee or privilege tax. These agreements ensure that cities are compensated for special use of public services. This also prevents city residents from subsidizing extraordinary use of public space. These agreements often take the form of contracts or city ordinances which outline the rate charged, term and conditions, and any extra services provided by either party.

The League asks cities their rates and rate calculations for telecommunication and cable franchises in the recent past. Questions are also posed for other franchises, such as electricity, water, garbage, and franchises to other governments. This information is crucial to understanding revenue sources in Oregon cities and to forecasting revenue trends into the future.

Dataset contains selected budget information from 2006 to 2014 for 50 cities. The data includes: property tax revenue, public safety expenditure, governmental fund revenue and expenditure and general fund revenue and expenditure.

This data comes from the 2018 salary survey data. Please notethe following:

1. Where able, the data has been altered to reflect the annual pay of the average employee in this city and in this position based on the city's salary range.
2. Not all salaries and wages of less than 1 FTE could be confirmed. As a result, some salaries for positions with less than 1 FTE are either the annual equivelant or the actual pay of the employee throughout a year (ex. if an employee would make $50,000 as a full time employee but only works half-time, some cities marked this as $50,000 or $25,000.
3. Educational attainment often was provided with a minimum education and experience as well as a preferred level. The minimum of both categories are provided.

Compares total property tax revenues to public safety expenditures for 50 cities from 2006 to 2014. Dollar amount is adjusted to 2014 using the Portland-Seattle CPI-U.

Transient Lodging Tax Revenues (in thousands of dollars) provided by Dean Runyan Associates

Dataset contains selected budget information from 2006 to 2014 for 50 cities. The data includes: property tax revenue, public safety expenditure, governmental fund revenue and expenditure and general fund revenue and expenditure.

Data for the 2016 SDC Survey.

NOTE: Some data (such as residential and non-residential fees) are based on an example given to member cities in the survey. The example is provided in the attached survey.

State Awards for Special Public Works Fund in 2010-17

This is the City Financial Data for fiscal year 2017. Note that this data has been expanded for FY2018 to include more detailed breakdown of city finances.

Dataset contains selected budget information from 2006 to 2014 for 50 cities. The data includes: property tax revenue, public safety expenditure, governmental fund revenue and expenditure and general fund revenue and expenditure.