Small City Allotment Program

The Small City Allotment (SCA) program is an annual allocation of state funds for local transportation projects. Incorporated cities with populations of 5,000 or less are eligible to apply. As the need for these funds far exceed the availability, grants are awarded per a competitive process. Projects are only compared against other projects within the same region.

Funding

The program is funded at $5 million per year, half from an appropriation of highway funds for cites and half from moneys available to the Department of Transportation from the State Highway Fund. To ensure an equitable distribution of funds across ODOT’s five regions we use a formula that considers:

% of total eligible city population by region
% of total number of eligible cities per region
% of total number of applications received per region

Each region’s average of these three values is equal to their share of the available funding.

2025 Grant Application - Round 2

Round 2, Grant Results are in!

ODOT met with the Small City Allotment Advisory Committee on July 15th to go over the solicitation results and identify the newest Grant Awardees, link provided below.

NOTICE: Next opportunity to apply will be March through April, 2026, and will be widely announced.

Useful Links

Contact

Statewide Investments Program Manager
Cecelia Gilbert
503-991-8689
SmallCityAllotments@odot.oregon.gov

Stay in the know!

We use GovDelivery/Granicus, an email distribution system, to keep eligible cities informed of important program information. Contact information you provide us (we only use your email address) is entered into the Small City Allotment distribution list, and you automatically receive updates about the program.

If in the past you have opted out of receiving GovDelivery/Granicus emails, your email address may be blocked from receiving our notices. To unblock your emails address, go to GovDelivery and re-sign up for our topic, "Small City Allotment" under the "Local Agencies" group.

Need to update the contact for your city? Want to remove or change your email address? Please contact Cecelia Gilbert at SmallCityAllotments@odot.oregon.gov