OAR 581-024-0285
Local Service Plans
(1)
The district board must develop and adopt a local service plan pursuant to ORS 334.175 (Core services) and this rule.(2)
Following adoption by the district board, the local service plan must be approved by the boards of the component school districts by resolution on or before March 1 pursuant to ORS 334.175 (Core services)(5)(b). The local service plan must include all services and facilities provided by an ESD, including the core services as defined in 334.175 (Core services)(2) and section (7) of this rule, those services required by state and federal law and services provided under contract to component school districts, non-component school districts and other public and private entities and must be approved annually by the ESD board and the component school districts. A local service plan shall also contain annual performance measures. A local service plan must be approved by the affirmative vote of at least two thirds of the boards of the ESD’s component school districts, representing at least 50 percent of the total number of students enrolled in component school districts of the ESD.(3)
Pursuant to ORS 334.177 (Expenditure of percentage of amounts received on services) an education service district board shall expend at least 90 percent of all amounts received from the State School Fund and at least 90 percent of all amounts considered to be local revenues of an education service district on services or programs that have been adopted by the district board in the local service plan and approved by the component school districts of the education service district through the resolution process described in 334.175 (Core services). For purposes of this section, amounts considered to be local revenues of an education service district are those local revenues defined in 327.019 (State School Fund distribution computations for education service districts)(1)(b) less the amounts required to be distributed to component school districts under 327.019 (State School Fund distribution computations for education service districts)(8).(4)
Pursuant to ORS 334.177 (Expenditure of percentage of amounts received on services), an education service district board shall expend 100 percent of all amounts received from the School Improvement Fund on services or programs that have been adopted by the district board in the local service plan and approved by the boards of the component school districts of the education service district through the resolution process described in 334.175 (Core services).(5)
Appropriate allocated costs of personnel, supplies, materials, equipment, and facilities associated with providing resolution services may be allocated to the local service plan and included in the 90% calculation.(6)
An approved local service plan may be amended at any time by the affirmative vote of at least two thirds of the boards of the ESD’s component school districts, representing at least 50 percent of the total number of students enrolled in component school districts of the ESD.(7)
ESDs shall offer the following core services to component school districts, including:(a)
Programs for children with special needs, including but not limited to special education services, services for at-risk students and professional development for employees who provide those services;(b)
Technology support for component school districts and the individual technology plans of those districts, including but not limited to technology infrastructure services, data services, instructional technology services, distance learning and professional development for employees who provide those services;(c)
School improvement services for component school districts, including but not limited to services designed to support component school districts in meeting the requirements of state and federal law, services designed to allow the education service district to participate in and facilitate a review of the state and federal standards related to the provision of a quality education by component school districts, services designed to support and facilitate continuous school improvement planning, services designed to address schoolwide behavior and climate issues and professional technical education and professional development for employees who provide those services;(d)
Administrative and support services for component school districts, including but not limited to services designed to consolidate component school district business functions, liaison services between the Department of Education and component school districts and registration of children being taught by private teachers, parents or legal guardians pursuant to ORS 339.035 (Teaching by private teacher, parent or guardian); and(e)
Other services that an education service district is required to provide by state or federal law, including but not limited to services required under ORS 339.005 (Definition for ORS 339.040 and 339.125) to 339.090 (Determination of compliance).(8)
An ESD may provide entrepreneurial services and facilities to non-component school districts and other public and private entities pursuant to ORS 334.185 (Entrepreneurial services and facilities). An ESD may provide entrepreneurial services and facilities if:(a)
The entrepreneurial services or facilities are included and identified in an approved local service plan;(b)
The entrepreneurial services or facilities are provided pursuant to a business plan, which must include a description of each service and facility, a statement of the projected expense incurred and revenue generated by the service or facility, a statement of the expected benefit to component school districts, an annual financial report provided to component school districts and a statement of the source of funding for the service or facility; and(c)
The primary purpose of the entrepreneurial services or facilities is to address a need of component school districts.(9)
Prior to June 30 of each year, an ESD shall submit to the Department of Education the local service plan of the ESD adopted pursuant to ORS 334.175 (Core services) and this rule. The local service plan shall be part of the Annual Report submitted by the ESD to the Department.
Source:
Rule 581-024-0285 — Local Service Plans, https://secure.sos.state.or.us/oard/view.action?ruleNumber=581-024-0285.