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Special District White Paper — Draft for Internal Review <br /> • Storm and surface water collection, pumping, treatment and disposal. <br /> • Street lighting. <br /> • Public parks and recreation facilities and services. <br /> • Public transportation, including public parking. <br /> • Emergency medical services, including ambulance services. <br /> • Library services. <br /> • Roads. <br /> • Emergency communications services, including 9 -1 -1 emergency reporting system. <br /> • Law enforcement services. <br /> • Human services. <br /> • Fire prevention and protection. <br /> • Planning services, including comprehensive planning for land use and public facilities. <br /> The territory of a county service district may include an incorporated city, with consent of the city <br /> council, and may extend countywide. The CSD principal Act links county service districts to <br /> implementation of county comprehensive plans and city master plans. The county board also <br /> serves as governing board for a county service district. The purposes of an existing CSD can be <br /> modified to permit adcitiorraFactivities not originally <br /> While CSDs are com on,Firf most have/ q primary parppse..ltrrLane County, the <br /> Lane County Metropo itarl Wastewater -Seri ice pistri4 is such - a-one- purpose county service <br /> district. A number of re0on CSDs have teen #orngd o provide transitional urban services to <br /> unincorporated territo within tile €urbarr growth baand ri s until city annexation could occur, in <br /> which case the annex d territory is no longer served by;t a district. In comparison, the North <br /> X Clackamas Parks and Recreation District, a'gour ty servic district pro \fides services once <br /> provided by the City o Milwaukie, whichis D boundaries. <br /> Port District <br /> A port district (ORS 777.005 to 777.725) is considered a multiple - purpose district even though it <br /> has the primary purpose of encouraging and facilitating economic development and commercial <br /> activity. To accomplish this general, primary purpose, ports are granted broad authority related <br /> to shipping, aviation, economic development and commerce, and can include either all the land <br /> in one county or a subarea of the county based on a natural watershed. Port districts can own <br /> land, provide port facilities and navigation, own convention centers, industrial and research and <br /> development parks, provide for energy generation and power transmission. The Governor first <br /> appoints a board of five port commissioners. Thereafter, voters in the district elect the port's <br /> board of commissioners. In Lane County, the Siuslaw Port District currently serves the area of <br /> the Siuslaw River basin in western Lane County. <br /> FINANCIAL CAPABILITIES OF DISTRICTS <br /> Special districts are typically permitted by their principal Act to levy property taxes, with voter <br /> approval, to fund its operations and services. In addition, a district's principal Act may permit <br /> user fees, assessments on benefited property, revenue bonds and, with the voter approval, <br /> local option levies and general obligation debt. All special districts are subject to several <br /> limitations on their tax rates and on the amount of revenue they may raise. These are listed <br /> briefly below, and then will be more fully discussed. <br /> Draft #5 Page 11 1 0/24/0 1 <br />