increasing certain mooring fees and directing such funds to the cyanobacteria mitigation loan and grant fund.
What changed between versions
The annual mooring fee for congregate mooring fields increased from $50 to $75. A new fee of $75 was added for 'public mooring fields' (a category not in the original bill). The fee for moorings not in a congregate or public field remains $50 (up from $25 in the original).
Fund allocation was restructured: for congregate or public mooring fields ($75 fee), $50 goes to the navigation safety fund and $25 to the cyanobacteria fund. For other moorings ($50 fee), $25 goes to each fund. In the original, only the non-congregate fee had a $25 cyanobacteria allocation.
Projected annual revenue to the cyanobacteria mitigation fund increased from $68,750-$80,000 to $111,250-$122,500, reflecting the broader application of the $25 allocation across all mooring types (4,450-4,900 total moorings vs. 2,750-3,200 previously counted).
A new category called 'public mooring field' was introduced, creating a three-tier fee structure (congregate, public, and other) instead of the original two-tier structure (congregate vs. non-congregate).
The fiscal note methodology was expanded to include details about current fund status (~$250,000 remaining from the initial $1 million appropriation, a pending $200,000 application) and typical project costs ($250,000-$500,000 per project).
