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 ...

For over 50 years, the special District that governed Walt Disney World ran in the background, with the public knowing and seeing very little of it. But since the start of the year, the Board has been filled with appointees of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, and every move the new Board makes has become public fodder. As the Walt Disney ...

It’s been less than a year since the Florida Legislature and Governor Ron DeSantis passed legislation that stripped Disney of the Reedy Creek Improvement District and replaced it with the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District. In that time, the new Board, filled entirely with DeSantis appointees, has shown that it doesn’t fully understand the operational organization of such a vast ...

Earlier this week, the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District issued a scathing press release and made a referral to the Florida Inspector General over what it called a “scheme to funnel millions of taxpayers dollars” for use by employees at Walt Disney World. But in an email to those employees, the Board, hand-picked by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, said that ...