News Reedy Creek Improvement District and the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District

[castlecake2.0]

A whole bunch of district functions - think engineering and design type roles - are outsourced to RCES. That way Disney could share them with their own internal resources.

For instance, RCES are responsible for the design of road signage on behalf of the District. This allows for the same signage to appear on District and Disney owned roadways.

So after 2028 who provides these services?

 

[tissandtully]

I thought these agreements were untouchable and Disney was going to win in all their lawsuits?

I thought this was gonna be a slam dunk for the government, who lets be clear slow walked any sort of public records requested and we see they got out of that as well, gee, curious. Doing your own spin I see.

 

[wdwmagic]

So was Garcia leaving part of the deal? He seemed to have go so far against Disney that there was no way for him to continue under a settlement.

 

[lentesta]

So does this really boil down to:

- abort the state lawsuits
- adjust the development agreement to Disney's liking and the federal lawsuit stops

And Disney gets to move ahead with the MK, DHS, and AK work without artificial delays from the board.

 

[tissandtully]

And Disney gets to move ahead with the MK, DHS, and AK work without artificial delays from the board.

Get back to business as usual, which has been the plan all along. I'm seeing this more as a Disney win.

 

[Disneydad1012]

So was Garcia leaving part of the deal? He seemed to have go so far against Disney that there was no way for him to continue under a settlement.

It can't be a coincidence that both Gracia and Glizean are out and then this happens "overnight" that had to be the deal Disney made.

 

[drnilescrane]

So after 2028 who provides these services?

RCES still could, but not at the rates Disney has currently got locked in.

The district could also take those services back/outsource them to somebody else.

 

[lazyboy97o]

And Disney gets to move ahead with the MK, DHS, and AK work without artificial delays from the board.

Except the board was prevented from accessing their most direct means of creating delays. Now they get to move forward with changing the comprehensive plan and development regulations, opening up that very ability to meddle.

 

[tissandtully]

Except the board was prevented from accessing their most direct means of creating delays. Now they get to move forward with changing the comprehensive plan and development regulations, opening up that very ability to meddle.

This does not seem like something that would come back in any sort of agreement that was made.

 

[MisterPenguin]

There's no conditions on Disney to stop publicly speaking on political issues.

Nor is there any mention that the new board has reviewing powers over Disney content in the parks or studios.

That would have been some people's first priority in 'controlling Disney' as part of a settlement since that seemed to be the major concern of those imposing the new board.

 

[pdude81]

So was Garcia leaving part of the deal? He seemed to have go so far against Disney that there was no way for him to continue under a settlement.

The timing of Gilzean and Garcia leaving just before everything changes can't be ignored. I would assume that is part of a backroom handshake agreement and not the official changes enacted now with the new members.

 

[tissandtully]

There's no conditions on Disney to stop publicly speaking on political issues.

Nor is there any mention that the new board has reviewing powers over Disney content in the parks or studios.

That would have been some people's first priority in 'controlling Disney' as part of a settlement since that seemed to be the major concern of those imposing the new board.

No, now the fight is about "good government" you see. lol

 

[SplashJacket]

If anything, this is a clear sign we need vastly improved anti-corruption mechanisms and likely voter awareness.

 

[lazyboy97o]

Nor is there any mention that the new board has reviewing powers over Disney content in the parks or studios.

The development regulations can now be modified to require more approvals. This was the mechanism by which such censorship would have been pushed and is now available.

 

[tissandtully]

The development regulations can now be modified to require more approvals. This was the mechanism by which such censorship would have been pushed and is now available.

Then the federal case is back on.

 

[flynnibus]

And Disney gets to move ahead with the MK, DHS, and AK work without artificial delays from the board.

I doubt the gov would want to publicly block a few billion investment in central Florida tho…

Get out of the way… ok… but make it untenable? Seems counter to his bigger picture needs

 

[tissandtully]

I doubt the gov would want to publicly block a few billion investment in central Florida tho…

Get out of the way… ok… but make it untenable? Seems counter to his bigger picture needs

He didn't seem to care 2 years ago. Wonder what changed?

 

[Chi84]

The reason this whole thing started no longer exists. The government never had any viable, legitimate reason for interfering in Disney's business so there's no reason to believe the district won't go back to being handled the way it was all those years. The only difference may be in rewarding connected politicians with lucrative, but powerless, appointments.

 

[flynnibus]

He didn't seem to care 2 years ago. Wonder what changed?

Not the same example on the table

 

[flynnibus]

The government never had any viable, legitimate reason for interfering in Disney's business so there's no reason to believe the district won't go back to being handled the way it was all those years. The only difference may be in rewarding connected politicians with lucrative, but powerless, appointments.

That line of thinking is defeated by the district’s own ‘audit’ which claims all kinds of intermingling- which they claimed to have stopped. So how could it all be ‘as it was’ and also no impact?