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

Zummi Gummi

Zummi Gummi

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GrumpyFan said:

Iger shared his thoughts on the situation in an interview with Time​


I cannot let this interview finish without asking you about the situation in Florida. Did you checkmate Ron DeSantis?​

Disney World opened just over 50 years ago. It was the vision and the dream of Walt Disney, probably the most ambitious thing he ever did—turning swampland in Central Florida into a business that employs over 75,000 people, that is visited by tens of millions of people every year, that is a major tourist destination in the United States, and for the state of Florida, that creates huge value for our company and its employees, and for the state of Florida itself. Our sole goal in Florida is to continue creating that value for all those constituencies. All we want is a relationship with the state that enables us to continue to do that. We have the wherewithal and we have the desire to continue to invest there to grow that business so that we can hire more people so that we can increase our attendance, and so that we can basically increase more value for the Walt Disney Company and for the state of Florida. It’s that simple.

Usually, you’re very much a let’s-sit-down-and-get-past-our differences guy, and much less a let’s-go-to-the-mattresses guy. Is there no trying to meet with the governor?​

I do not view this as a going-to-mattresses situation for us. If the governor of Florida wants to meet with me to discuss all of this, of course, I would be glad to do that. You know, I’m one that typically has respected our elected officials and the responsibility that they have, and there would be no reason why I wouldn’t do that.

Read the full interview here: https://time.com/6269006/bob-iger-interview-time100/
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Whatever your thoughts about Iger, he certainly handles the media a whole lot better than Chapek. Iger comes off, as someone else said, as calm and in control, while Ron has a temper tantrum in the other room.

This all could have been avoided if Iger had never left.
 
tissandtully

tissandtully

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Zummi Gummi said:
Ashley Moody (current attorney general) would be the favorite to be the next governor. I would say she's more a Rick Scott type, certainly far less antagonistic than Ron. The lieutenant governor, Jeannette Nunez, is a lightweight who just smiles and talks about leaving Cuba. This is not to say that someone out of the blue couldn't win, especially if T offers another endorsement. Adam Putnam was the favorite to be governor until T elevated Ron. Could certainly happen again.
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we need young blood like Anna Eskamani, someone to ignite the younger base. Even Maxwell Frost.
 
Disstevefan1

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Iger's 2023 TIME100 cover shoot.

I cannot let this interview finish without asking you about the situation in Florida. Did you checkmate Ron DeSantis? Disney World opened just over 50 years ago. It was the vision and the dream of Walt Disney, probably the most ambitious thing he ever did—turning swampland in Central Florida into a business that employs over 75,000 people, that is visited by tens of millions of people every year, that is a major tourist destination in the United States, and for the state of Florida, that creates huge value for our company and its employees, and for the state of Florida itself. Our sole goal in Florida is to continue creating that value for all those constituencies. All we want is a relationship with the state that enables us to continue to do that. We have the wherewithal and we have the desire to continue to invest there to grow that business so that we can hire more people so that we can increase our attendance, and so that we can basically increase more value for the Walt Disney Company and for the state of Florida. It’s that simple.

Usually, you’re very much a let’s-sit-down-and-get-past-our differences guy, and much less a let’s-go-to-the-mattresses guy. Is there no trying to meet with the governor? I do not view this as a going-to-mattresses situation for us. If the governor of Florida wants to meet with me to discuss all of this, of course, I would be glad to do that. You know, I’m one that typically has respected our elected officials and the responsibility that they have, and there would be no reason why I wouldn’t do that.

We know they will never sit down and talk but we can dream..
 
GhostHost1000

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Disstevefan1 said:
We know they will never sit down and talk but we can dream..
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flyakite

flyakite

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Another meeting announcement in Orlando Sentinel

YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that on April 26 th at 9:30 a.m., or as soon thereafter as practicable, the Board of Supervisors of the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District will meet in regular session at The Wyndham Lake Buena Vista Resort 1850 Hotel Plaza Boulevard, Lake Buena Vista, Florida in the Horizons Ballroom. At that time, they will consider such business as may properly come before them.
BY: Tina Graham, Clerk
Central Florida Tourism Oversight District
 
Vegas Disney Fan

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How is it legal for a board to vote to give themselves “superior authority” over other entities?

They are removing things like planning commissions to give themselves more power, trying to remove towns to give themselves more power, where is the line drawn? Could they vote to remove the county for more power? or the state?

Obviously the answer must be no but legally how far can they go in their pursuit of power.
 
flynnibus

flynnibus

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Vegas Disney Fan said:
How is it legal for a board to vote to give themselves “superior authority” over other entities?
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You're reading too much into the labeling in this resolution I think. What you have here is the Board basically removing one of their subordinate committees/functions and replacing it with themselves. "superior authority" is just the fluffy wording they were using to make clear they want the board to be the one with the say, no one else.

The portion about the towns is to try to codify a "land grab" situation to avoid arguments of ambiguity of who has the say here in terms of the cities being used as a vector to end-around them.

I think this is all within their purvue, it's more that it's an obvious dictator kind of move where you consolidate power rather than setup smart people to do the work. Here they are trying to make sure they hold the controls and no one else.
 
lazyboy97o

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Vegas Disney Fan said:
How is it legal for a board to vote to give themselves “superior authority” over other entities?

They are removing things like planning commissions to give themselves more power, trying to remove towns to give themselves more power, where is the line drawn? Could they vote to remove the county for more power? or the state?

Obviously the answer must be no but legally how far can they go in their pursuit of power.
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It shouldn't be according to the state constitution's requirements for home rule, but Iger is "calm and mature" so he is allowing this precedent to be established without complaint.

All of this is allowed in the reconstitution legislation. The board is empowered to create a zoning commission but they are not required to have one, so they're getting rid of it.

The board has no power to dissolve the cities, but they do have "superior authority" over any cities and counties in regards to their powers.
 
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WannaGoNow

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Vegas Disney Fan said:
How is it legal for a board to vote to give themselves “superior authority” over other entities?

They are removing things like planning commissions to give themselves more power, trying to remove towns to give themselves more power, where is the line drawn? Could they vote to remove the county for more power? or the state?

Obviously the answer must be no but legally how far can they go in their pursuit of power.
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It's not. Legal, that is.

They can pass a resolution calling themselves the Grand High Poo Bahs of the Kingdom of the United States if they want. Neither Disney nor anyone else has no obligation to listen to them.

The contracts supercede any resolution.
 
lazyboy97o

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WannaGoNow said:
It's not. Legal, that is.

They can pass a resolution calling themselves the Grand High Poo Bahs of the Kingdom of the United States if they want. Neither Disney nor anyone else has no obligation to listen to them.

The contracts supercede any resolution.
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This has nothing to do with the contracts.
 
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WannaGoNow

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lazyboy97o said:
This has nothing to do with the contracts.
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Yes, it does.

The board has their panties in a twist over the contracts - i.e. the developer agreement and the restrictive covenants. So they are making up this nonsense resolution calling themselves the superior authority and claiming all decisions must go through them and they are the final arbiters.

And again, they can call themselves the Lord High Sparrows of Orlando and claim to have Jedi mindreading power over all of Bob Iger's decisions all they want.

But the resolution does not supercede the contracts they are so angry about. Disney is under no legal obligation to pay attention to their resolution; they have signed legal agreements that say otherwise.
 
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lazyboy97o

lazyboy97o

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WannaGoNow said:
Yes, it does.

The board has their panties in a twist over the contracts - i.e. the developer agreement and the restrictive covenants. So they are making up this nonsense resolution calling themselves the superior authority and claiming all decisions must go through them and they are the final arbiters.

And again, they can call themselves the Lord High Sparrows of Orlando all they want.

But the resolution does not supercede the contracts they are so angry about.
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Once again, these changes are provided for in the reconstitution law.
 

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