OAR 423-120-0020: Distribution of Funds

(1) To receive juvenile crime prevention funds, a county or tribe must enter into an intergovernmental agreement with the Youth Development Division. The intergovernmental agreement: (a) Must require a county or tribe to use the funds in accordance with OAR 423-120-0001 to 423-120-0040 and the terms of the agreement; (b) Must require a county or tribe to develop a budget as part of its juvenile crime prevention plan that accounts for how the county or tribe will use the funds; (c) Must prohibit a county or tribe from using the funds to reimburse any person or entity for expenditures made, or to pay for any expenses incurred, before the effective date of the agreement; (d) Must prohibit a county or tribe from using the funds to reimburse any person or entity for expenditures made, or to pay for any expenses incurred, before the date on which the Youth Development Council approves the juvenile crime prevention plan; (e) Must require the funds, if allocated by the county or tribe to another entity for the provision of a juvenile crime prevention service, to be allocated pursuant to an agreement between the county or tribe and the entity under which the entity must: (A) Use the guidelines developed by the division pursuant to OAR 413-120-0015 for measuring changes in juvenile crime and recidivism; (B) Enter information related to assessing an individual’s risk of committing a juvenile crime in the Juvenile Justice Information System operated by the Oregon Youth Authority or in an identified database operated by the Oregon Department of Education; and (C) Must report to the county or tribe on the use of the allocation; (f) May allow the division to distribute the funds to the county or tribe in allotments quarterly; and (g) May allow the division to distribute an allotment to the county or tribe only upon receiving a request from the county or tribe to receive the allotment. (2) A county or tribe must notify the division, in a form and manner required by the division, of any change to the budget. (3) A county or tribe must return to the division any juvenile crime prevention funds that have not been obligated six months before the date on which the term of the intergovernmental agreement ends.