Requires 10% of all rental fees collected by the water resources board pursuant to a lease with the Coventry Pines Golf Club be paid to the town of Coventry and 10% to the Central Coventry Fire District.

Plain-English Summary

This bill deals with how money from a lease agreement between Rhode Island's Water Resources Board and the Coventry Pines Golf Club is shared. Currently, when the golf club pays rental fees to the Water Resources Board for using state-managed land or water resources, all of that money goes to the state. This bill would require that a portion of those fees be redirected to the local community where the golf club is located.

Specifically, the bill would require that 10% of the rental fees collected from Coventry Pines Golf Club go to the Town of Coventry and another 10% go to the Central Coventry Fire District. The remaining 80% would continue to go to the Water Resources Board as it does now. This means the local town government and the local fire district would receive a direct financial benefit from the golf club's use of state resources in their community.

The bill primarily affects three parties: the Rhode Island Water Resources Board (which would keep less of the rental income), the Town of Coventry (which would gain new revenue), and the Central Coventry Fire District (which would also receive new funding). Residents of Coventry could indirectly benefit if their town and fire district use these funds for local services. The bill has been introduced and sent to the Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee for review.