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Parks & Recreation advisory committee reviews 2025, recommends cemetery fee increase and outlines 2026 projects
Summary
The Parks & Recreation Advisory Committee presented its 2025 annual report, recommending a 25% cemetery-fee increase (to be indexed) and outlining CIP priorities including a Westland dog park, Chapin Park playground improvements and early work on a new aquatics center in 2026.
Tim Lainhart, chair of the Parks & Recreation Advisory Committee, presented the committee’s 2025 annual report to the Oregon City Commission on Dec. 17, summarizing monthly work on fees, park projects and community outreach. “We voted unanimously to raise the cemetery rates by 25%,” Lainhart said, and recommended tying future fee adjustments to inflation with a biennial review.
The committee described three fee-increase options considered in January — a 25% increase, a 50% increase and…
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