OAR 589-002-0110
Definitions
(1)
“Total Public Resources (TPR)” is what the Community College Support Fund formula considers 100% of the next year’s imposed property tax revenue and the General Fund appropriation from the legislature. TPR does not include tuition and fees paid by students.(2)
“Base Payment” is an allocation made from the Community College Support Fund which provides funding for basic community college district operations that are essential and do not vary in direct proportion to the districts’ Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) student enrollment. The base allocation increases stability and predictability of funding for individual colleges.(3)
“Equalization” means equal public resource support per funded FTE, regardless of community college district, and exclusive of the base. Equalization is measured by dividing Total Public Resources, exclusive of the base, by funded FTE.(4)
“Property tax revenues” means the amount determined by the Department of Revenue to be imposed on local property following the application of limits imposed by sections 11(b)(1) through 11(b)(3), Article XI, of the Oregon Constitution, and those limits imposed by legislation implementing Ballot Measure 50. This amount becomes the basis for operation of the funding formula without regard to uncollectible taxes, or taxes collected from previous years. Taxes levied or imposed by a community college district to provide a public library system shall be excluded from the definition of property taxes in this rule. Property tax revenues raised through voter approval of any local option or capital construction levy are not to be included as a resource to be distributed through the funding formula.(5)
“Community College Support Fund (CCSF)” is funding received through the state’s General Fund appropriation and distributed to the community college districts for funding educational programs.(6)
“Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) student” for the purpose of receiving state reimbursement, means a student who carries 510 clock hours over three terms of instruction for all terms including a fall 12-week term. All colleges with an 11-week fall term will have their fall term clock hours increased to the equivalent 12-week hours for the purpose of calculating reimbursable FTE.(7)
“Total Reimbursable FTE” means full-time equivalent students that are eligible for state reimbursement. These students must receive instruction from community college districts through either a contracted out-of district (COD) agreement described in OAR 589-002-0600 (Access by Unserved Areas to Community College Services; and Procedures for Contracted Out-of-District Areas), an agreement to provide services to state penitentiary or correctional institution inmates described in OAR 589-002-0700 (Community College Services for Adults in Custody of State Penitentiary and Correctional Institutions), or are CCSF reimbursable FTE, described in Sections (2) through (5) and Section (8) of this rule.(8)
“CCSF Reimbursable FTE” means full-time equivalent students that are eligible, as described in OAR 589-002-0110 (Definitions) Sections (2) through (5) of this rule, for state funding through the CCSF Funding Distribution Formula, before the application of the Annual Growth Factor (AGF), and less any adjustments for FTE of upper division courses included in applied baccalaureate programs (defined in OAR 589-006-0050)(9)
“Contracted Out-of-District (COD) Reimbursable FTE” means full-time equivalent students that are not residents in the community college district that they are attending and for which the community college district has a contract to provide educational services with an entity in the geographic area from which the student resides. COD reimbursable FTE must meet all other requirements of a CCSF reimbursable FTE. The community college district must have a contract in place with the Department of Community Colleges and Workforce Development in order to receive reimbursement.(10)
“Fundable FTE” is the number of full-time equivalent students that are at or below each community college district’s FTE Cap. Fundable FTE is the lesser of either the CCSF reimbursable FTE or the FTE cap. This number is used in the three-year weighted average calculation that determines a community college district’s funded FTE as described in Section 11 of this rule.(11)
“Funded FTE” is the community college district’s number of full-time equivalent students used in the formula to distribute the CCSF funding for each community college district. This number is buffered to prevent significant changes in a community college district’s funding due to variability in student enrollment. It is calculated using a three-year weighted average of fundable FTE with the first year prior to current fundable FTE weighted at 40%, second year prior to current fundable FTE weighted at 30%, and third year prior to current fundable FTE weighted at 30%.(12)
“Total Funded FTE" is the sum of all community college districts’ funded FTE for a fiscal year.(13)
“FTE Cap” is the maximum number of CCSF reimbursable FTE per community college district, which may be included in the funding formula calculation. The FTE cap is determined by applying the annual growth factor and may be adjusted by the preliminary FTE cap as described in Section 14.(14)
“Preliminary FTE Cap” is a tool that allows a community college district to recover fundable FTE within one year, if the district’s CCSF reimbursable FTE is less than the FTE cap. There are two preliminary FTE caps. The first is based on the FTE cap from one year prior and the second is based on the prior year’s fundable FTE. The annual growth factor (as defined in Section 19 below) is applied to each. The current year’s FTE cap is the greater of these two numbers.(15)
“Growth Management” means the application of the Growth Management Component in combination with each community college district’s FTE cap.(16)
“Biennial Growth Management Component” is the percent change, from one biennium to the next, of the total number of FTE for all community college districts that could be included in the funding formula without reducing resources available per FTE. The biennial growth management component is determined by the amount of total public resources available for the current biennium compared to the prior biennium and the estimated increased cost of FTE.(17)
“Higher Education Coordinating Commission’s Biennial Quality Growth Factor” is a policy lever that allows the number of FTE that will be counted for funding purposes to be above or below the Biennial Growth Management Component.(18)
“Total Biennial Growth Management Component” is the sum of the Biennial Growth Management Component and the Higher Education Coordinating Commission’s Biennial Quality Growth Factor.
Source:
Rule 589-002-0110 — Definitions, https://secure.sos.state.or.us/oard/view.action?ruleNumber=589-002-0110.