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

[Lilofan]

Kevin Mayer was just on CNBC talking about all of this wearing a gray crew neck sweatshirt.

What a time to be alive.

Ex Disney, Playboy Enterprises exec , former Tik Tok CEO back in the news?

 

[lazyboy97o]

Lesson for large corporations that operate outside of their home state: You are the guest of the state that you choose to do business in.

No, governments don’t get to punish speech just because the entity is not headquartered in the state.

 

[wdw71fan]

Bob Chapek is going to have a short tenure as the leader , that's for sure.. Literally undid some of Walts best work with a few press releases and tweets.

 

[payload]

The likelihood of this happening is still low even with the law. RCID residents have to vote to dissolve don't they? Or does this bill somehow get around that legal requirement?

Possibly...theres some verbiage in the bill which is dissolving RCID that has a 'Notwithstanding' clause aimed at the section most people are referencing in 189.072 section 2A.

"Notwithstanding s. 189.072(2), any independent special district established by a special act prior to the date of ratification of the Florida Constitution on November 5, 1968, and which was not reestablished, re-ratified, or otherwise reconstituted by a special act or general law after November 5, 1968, is dissolved effective June 1, 2023."

Source for above

 

[Tha Realest]

Ex Disney, Playboy Enterprises exec , former Tik Tok CEO back in the news?

If any CEO knows how to take marching orders from an authoritarian government, it’s him.

 

[CaptinEO]

No, governments don’t get to punish speech just because the entity is not headquartered in the state.

Disney benefits so much from the state of florida and the company is now trash talking state leadership, while taking in crazy tax benefits and making tons of money there.

 

[Lilofan]

And hurting his taxpayers along the way...

The ones he's hurting in Orange and Osceola counties won't even affect him. His base of other parts of FL minus a few cities , will still support him.

 

[Lilofan]

Bob Chapek is going to have a short tenure as the leader , thats for sure

If it is under his watch, it doesn't spell well.

 

[KrzyKtty]

Mayor: Dissolving Disney's special district would be 'catastrophic' to Orange County budget

Mayor Jerry Demings said he doesn’t think the people who are voting on the decision have given any thought to the outcome.

www.wesh.com

 

[lazyboy97o]

Disney benefits so much from the state of florida and the company is now trash talking state leadership, while taking in crazy tax benefits and making tons of money there.

Doesn’t matter. That’s how free speech works.

Will you be the one point out these big tax benefits provided to Disney by the District?

 

[EeyoreFan#24]

From the CNBC article posted above, it says this, "Florida law dictates that special districts created by the legislature can only be dissolved with a majority vote of the district’s landowners. For Reedy Creek, that’s the Walt Disney Company."

So even though it looks like it has passed and will be signed, it's probably not going anywhere? So I think the RCID might be safe because aren't the only people that live in the district Disney employees?

That’s the part that confuses me. I’d be really interested to hear what some people with legal expertise in this area have to say about that.

More so, depending on what is legally doable based on said experts opinions, I’d be really interested in what the other 1800 or so special districts have to say. I’d bet they are staying quiet because of the underlying topic they are fighting over right now, but if it stands, the other districts futures could be one disagreement away without the protection from the state they though they had.

 

[wdwmagic]

I understand this is very difficult, but please don't get into wider spread politics. If you do, you will be banned from this thread. Thanks.

 

[lazyboy97o]

That’s the part that confuses me. I’d be really interested to hear what some people with legal expertise in this area have to say about that.

More so, depending on what is legally doable based on said experts opinions, I’d be really interested in what the other 1800 or so special districts have to say. I’d bet they are staying quiet because of the underlying topic they are fighting over right now, but if it stands, the other districts futures could be one disagreement away without the protection from the state they though they had.

Most of the other districts do not purely pre-date 1968, so they’re not effected. They picked a pretense that would largely protect the other districts.

 

[Tom P.]

Sad to see that The Site That Shall Not Be Named now has higher standards in their reporting of Disney news than @wdwmagic does.

WDWMagic story:

The other site's story:

Only one site manages to actually give the correct name for the bill and at least acknowledge that it's not actually called the "Don't Say Gay" bill.

 

[AdventureHasAName]

Mayor: Dissolving Disney's special district would be 'catastrophic' to Orange County budget

Mayor Jerry Demings said he doesn’t think the people who are voting on the decision have given any thought to the outcome.

www.wesh.com

The mayor is full of it and he knows it. All they have to do is raise taxes on businesses with over 60,000 employees in the county (commensurate with the increased costs) and the problem goes away.

 

[flynnibus]

They wouldn’t for the same reasons they didn’t do it to Universal.

Universal's land was not unzoned, nor did Universal dump a billion dollar debt or 40+ sq miles of new liability on the county. Nothing like the situation being discussed.

And where Universial did do development, they didn't do without proffers to the county. So not seeing how that is relevant to the situation cited

 

[lazyboy97o]

The mayor is full of it and he knows it. All they have to do is raise taxes on businesses with over 60,000 employees in the county (commensurate with the increased costs) and the problem goes away.

There are limits on how much the county can raise taxes.

 

[wdwmagic]

Sad to see that The Site That Shall Not Be Named now has higher standards in their reporting of Disney news than @wdwmagic does.

WDWMagic story:

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The other site's story:


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Only one site manages to actually give the correct name for the bill and at least acknowledge that it's not actually called the "Don't Say Gay" bill.

If you don't like my site and reporting, feel free to leave anytime.

 

[Chip Chipperson]

The mayor is full of it and he knows it. All they have to do is raise taxes on businesses with over 60,000 employees in the county (commensurate with the increased costs) and the problem goes away.

What tax will they be increasing under your plan?

 

[Lilofan]

Mayor: Dissolving Disney's special district would be 'catastrophic' to Orange County budget

Mayor Jerry Demings said he doesn’t think the people who are voting on the decision have given any thought to the outcome.

www.wesh.com

Mayor Demings will gave no choice but to pass the increased costs to the local taxpayers. The raising tourist tax and businesses won't pay for all these costs. When it hurts more to the locals let us see how this plays out. The FL legislators and DeSantis could care less.