Well , hi everybody . This is Bill Bateman from OSTA with another OSTA update , and I promised I would be keeping everyone up to date with the status of the bill as soon as that information became available . And by golly , here we are again . Hb 3054 , as amended , passed out of the House Housing Committee on Monday afternoon on a straight party line vote . Seven Democrats gave yes votes , five Republicans gave no votes . It's important to notice that if only one Democrat had voted no , the result would have been a tie vote and the bill would have failed . That's how close these margins are . The Republicans on the committee did ask for a subsequent referral that , if the bill does pass out of the full House to Ways and Means . That means the Republicans think the bill would have some negative impact on the state budget . Personally , I'm not quite sure what they're thinking . It could be just a procedural roadblock . What happens next ? Well , the bill is going to be reprinted as 3054A and will go to the House floor . If you reach out , please send appropriate thank yous or what the heck's as appropriate . Let's thank the people who are supporting us and let's politely remind those who are against us that we are watching and we want to see their logic . We'd like to get more information on why they're acting the way they are . So that's
what's going on as far as HB 3054 at this hour . It's changing constantly . It will be time again to send out emails , to send out postcards , to do whatever you can to get your friends and neighbors involved and aware . Way too often , way too often , these things happen in a very small microcosm . I've talked to people in my own neighborhood and they what bill Dummy ? You live in a mobile home park . Come on , what do you mean ? What , bill ? It's serious business . Knowledge and information are the things that are going to keep the wheels greased , keep the wheels turning . Wheels greased , keep the wheels turning . Now the reason I'm kind of on this . We get information from one of our board members who is also an attorney . He is not an OSTA attorney , but he is an attorney who is on our board and he keeps us up to date with things going on around the state . So let's look at some of these . You won't believe this .
Speaker 1First of all , new park owners decided the Arborvitae plants needed to go . They've been there about 10 years , 90.412 waived any objections , and these were 10 to 12 feet high . The park tells the tenant . Well , you can't have those for aesthetic purposes and the tenants must remove them . Most tenants are complying out of fear . There are no claims by anyone about it being hazardous . This just appears to be a change in the park rule . The park does not do the 90.610 process . One tenant refuses , the park threatens to evict them . Now that's a violation of 93.75, . So the Tenant says I'll trim them . Park says must be no more than five feet . The tenant hires an arborist and the arborist says if you cut them that much they're going to die . Park is informed of this but the park says cut them down or we will evict you .
Speaker 1Here's another one . Park has poor to no storm drainage . In the past a tenant whose lot got flooded complained , so the park gave him a sump pump . Tenant had to install that pump and supply the electricity at their own expense . Until recently that took care of it basically , but now it's no longer working . Other tenants are starting to have flooding issues too . Park refuses to do anything , saying it's not their problem .
Speaker 1And number three tenant moves into the park . The park makes a bargain , signs a rental contract to rent a space in the park with a laundry facility . The tenant is paying the rental value for a park with these facility . The park unilaterally took out the laundry facility . That's a violation of 9262.2 , as well as 9375 and 9610 . The park refuses to discuss replacing or returning the washers and dryers . This is a unilateral change in the bargain , a breach and unlawful change in the rental contract . It's also a unilateral change in the park rules .
Speaker 1These are just three reasons . We're seeing increasing problems because of management in the parks . Some people are saying this is retaliation . Now , these are just three examples of some of the violations or egregious behavior you see around the state of Oregon by park management . Most of the time they do them , they think , with impunity , because people don't know the rules , don't know the law . That's why I quoted the section of the rental code and there are some very strong sanctions . They're not expensive , they're not going to get fined $10,000 , but it is possible to get free rent when they start getting way off the reservation . So these are just three of the more flagrant examples of problems that just seem to keep getting worse .
For our fourth , we're going to look up to Forest Grove , oregon , and that's going to be the subject of a special segment I'm going to be doing in my next episode . There are allegations of assault , there are allegations of drunken threats being made . There's all kinds of allegations happening . So we're going to be contacting officials in that area the police department , the sheriff's department to find out what we can and see if there's anything that we can do to get things under control . People shouldn't have to live like this and I think that's one of our responsibilities at OSTA .
Speaker 1So stay tuned . We're coming in with a special report . Please stay tuned for that . Please thank your representatives if they supported
you . If yours did not reach out to them politely and ask them what you can do to help change their mind , perhaps remind them that you did kind of vote for them and it is kind of their responsibility to represent the will of the people . Stuff like that and tune in as we get new information . We'll be keeping you up to date on the very latest . So until next time . This is Bill Bateman for OSTA . Be safe , be good to each other . Goodbye for now . No-transcript .