At today's Central Florida Tourism Oversight District board meeting, the new management board outlined several priorities that it hopes to evaluate and implement as it takes over from Reedy Creek Improvement District.
The board said that they will aim to provide the governor with a report before the next Florida legislative session so they can make more long-term changes to the legislation of the district.
Here is a run-down of the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District's current plans as outlined at today's meeting:
- Creating new zoning to develop affordable and workforce housing
- Creating voting rights for future residents in that housing
- Developing better traffic solutions for the surrounding counties
- Reducing the carbon footprint for the district
- Aligning the district's interests to join Osceola and Orange counties to fight Disney's lawsuits relating to taxes
- Join the counties and school boards in efforts to create funding for public schools in Central Florida
- Evaluate regulating Disney like every other business in Central Florida
- Charging utility rates that are not controlled by Disney
- Evaluate providing more transparent to the districted governors
- Implementing new accounting standards
- Increasing the district revenues
- Evaluate how to monetize assets of the districts to pay off debts
The board also revealed that Disney created an agreement with Reedy Creek Improvement District prior to the arrival of the new board to set their own utility rates. Board member Martin Garcia said, "Disney is going to tell the governing body what utility rates they are going to pay and what everyone else in the district is going to pay."
We expect to hear more on many of these points during the presentations later this morning at the board meeting.
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