WOOO NOTICE ON RULE MAKING LEASE TERMS & RATES

Please take urgent and important action to protect yourselves from unfavorable lease terms and huge rate increases.
Some of the proposed updates to Oregon Administrative Rules 141-082 include:

 • Simplify from three methods to one method for calculating lease rates. • Increase application fees to track with inflation and increase by 5% annually.

 • Add a Submerged Lands Enhancement Fund annual fee for leases. • Add fees for applications requiring review by the Department of Justice and for when leases are not renewed before expiration. • Shorten the initial term of a lease to five years. • Require financial assurance for registrations. • Use clear and simple language where current rule is confusing or unnecessarily complex
Here’s what we recommend YOU do immediately:

-Find someone who is concerned and committed to making this a priority to represent your organization and connect them with us. We will convene a Workgroup for DSL Lease Rules and Terms open to all WOOO members concerned about their future leases.

-Subscribe to notices https://www.oregon.gov/dsl/Pages/subscribe.aspx in particular the sub category Rulemaking: proposed changes to administrative rules

-Attend the virtual meetingsA Rulemaking Advisory Committee (RAC) has convened in November 2024, and all RAC meetings will be noticed, recorded, and open to the community to attend. The anticipated meeting schedule (subject to change,):Rulemaking Advisory CommitteeSee the RAC Roster here.​ We are delighted to have Jim Ryan, resident, past President and part owner of Jantzen Beach Moorage, Inc. a WOOO member who is a retired school administrator well versed in committee environments representing WOOO. Justin Teutsch of Columbia Crossings, another WOOO Member sits on the committee representing larger marinas but will be communicating with us as well.The anticipated meeting schedule is subject to change, subscribe to rulemaking updates here​. Meeting materials are posted and noticed one week in advance of each meeting.

• Meeting 1: November 13, 2024 
• Meeting 2: December 11, 2024 
• Meeting 3: January 22, 2025 
• Meeting 4: February 19, 2025 
• Meeting 5: March 19, 2025​
• Meeting 6: April 16, 2025
• Additional RAC meetings may be scheduled.

-Report to WOOO, make recommendations if needed and we will muster the overall support needed to ensure all waterfront organizations are informed, represented and protected.

-Attend WOOO Board meetings the first Wednesday of every month to keep informed and participate. Become a member, the cost is low but the numbers count. Let us be an even bigger voice for you.