This afternoon, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced he had found a new position for Central Florida Tourism Oversight District Administrator Glen Gilzean. Gilzean will take over as the Orange County Supervisor of Elections after former supervisor Bill Cowles retired at the end of January. Related: The Deeper People Dig, the Worse It Looks For DeSantis’ Disney Board Administrator Gilzean has been ...

Apparently, if you’re a lawyer working for the Walt Disney Company, there is no holiday break. Just two days before Christmas, Disney filed a new lawsuit against the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District and its Board, seeking records that the Board had withheld from Disney. The suit claimed that the Board appointed by Florid Governor Ron DeSantis failed to preserve ...

Will the last person to leave the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District please turn out the lights? Since the new Board took over in February, more than 40 employees have left the District, taking hundreds of years of service to the Reedy Creek Improvement District. Employees who have left the District have reported that it has become “politicized” and “no ...

It won’t be a Happy Thanksgiving for some former Reedy Creek Improvement District employees. And that list of former employees just keeps growing by the week. Last week, the number of former Reedy Creek employees who have resigned from the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District stood at 40. And now, according to the Orlando Sentinel, that number has just grown ...

Over the past two weeks, reports surfaced about worker dissatisfaction at the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District. Since the Board appointed by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis took over the Reedy Creek Improvement District earlier this year, more than 40 employees have resigned, taking more than 400 years of experience with them. And these employees have not gone quietly into the ...

When the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District first took over for the Reedy Creek Improvement District, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis made it clear that the new Board was mandated to clean up the District and create a transparent governing body. The Governor accused Disney of not playing by the same rules as all other taxpayers in Florida and promised that ...

In an ironic twist of fate, the Florida Ethics Commission once again finds itself in an ethical bind after another one of its members accepted a contract with the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District. The Board appointed by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis seemingly forgot that ethics deals with the moral principles governing a person’s behavior and that the committee’s bylaws ...

When Reedy Creek firefighter Pete Simon addressed a meeting of the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District Board to passionately make a case for continued benefits at Walt Disney World, he summed up the attitude of the Board since it took over for the Reedy Creek Improvement District earlier this year. Simon said, “All we’ve seen and heard is cuts. Cuts ...

In February 2023, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis officially dissolved the Reedy Creek Improvement District. The district was run by people appointed by Disney and allowed Disney to self-govern. The dissolution came after a year-long fight between Governor DeSantis and The Walt Disney Company. DeSantis then hand-picked a new board to run the district. It was called the Central Florida Tourism ...

Less than a week after the Walt Disney Company countersued the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District in State Court, the Board handpicked by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has sent a referral to the Florida Inspector General, requesting his office looks into more than $2 million authorized by the Reedy Creek Improvement District for employee benefits at Walt Disney World. The ...