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.

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.

This is the survey results from the 2017 LOC Water Rates Survey. The attached Survey will help you with the coding of the data.

This dataset focuses on housing statistics from the American Community Survey 2014.

Data from the American Communities Survey 2014. This data includes information on household income, city industries composition, and class of workers.

This dataset lists ballot measures of city, county, and district governments from 1997 to present.

DISCLAIMER: While every effort is made to provide accurate and complete information; accuracy, reliability, or completeness of the furnished data is not guaranteed in any way. For detailed information on any one ballot measure, please contact Oregon Department of State Elections Division.

Fail* Denotes the measure passed simple majority, but failed to meet the double majority requirement.

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.

This is the survey results from the 2017 LOC Water Rates Survey. The attached Survey will help you with the coding of the data.

The Certified Annual Financial Report (CAFR) is required by law to be completed every fiscal year by Oregon cities and submitted to the Oregon Department of State.

City property tax data for all 242 cities (Updated October 2016)