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Agreed on all counts. I meant the nomination of someone (we all know who that will probably be) such that his race is done and he’ll have to turn his attention back to being the governor and whatever he thinks comes after that.

It also occurs to me that if they challenge the reconstitution of the board in the state court they would likely have to bring the state/Desantis into that lawsuit. They may not want to do that, at least right now, for strategic reasons. Wild speculation on my part of course. But I have no...

That’s probably true. I guess it’s possible that things could change after the nomination is decided. Who knows how he and legislators might pivot? Depends on who’s writing the checks. They could fix this with a compromise and declare to his supporters that it was a triumph.

I’d guess that their best hope right now is to wait for a new governor who might agree to a compromise they can live with. In the meantime the lawsuits are necessary because they can’t sit back and allow the board to interfere with their ability to effectively run the property. The ongoing...

The defence and counterclaim Disney filed in the state court does include claims under the Florida Constitution, but I don’t *think* (don’t recall?) that any of them are directly related to the state’s authority to reconstitute the board.

I *think* RCID (and now its successor) was specifically empowered to set a millage rate of up to 30%. My impression is that the current board doesn’t want to immediately raise the rate because of the business owners who showed up at some early meetings to express fears about higher taxes to pay...

And of course the district’s taxpayers (mostly Disney) ALSO pay the counties’ property taxes.

Update: I found a contract for 2017-2018 and it included the same exclusion of Disney benefits from the definition of “Prevailing Rights”.

Yes, based on what the district has said so far, including an email to employees.

I’d still like to see a prior contract for comparison purposes. I probably won’t find one but I’ll post here if I do.

I don’t know whether the exclusion of Disney benefits was actually a new term. It would actually make sense as a term for all labour agreements even if the district’s current intention was to continue those benefits (because they couldn’t guarantee that Disney would continue to offer the...

This is in the copy of the agreement attached to last month’s meeting package. I’d be interested in whether this was a standard clause already used in other agreements, or was it new?