Osceola’s controversial land preservation tax is back on the ballot • Elections chief Gilzean got $20K-a-month consulting deal with Disney district
Orlando Morning Report Friday, June 7, 2024 | | |
| | Worrell appeal rejected | Osceola land preservation tax | Elections chief got $20K a month in consulting deal Good morning. It's Thursday, June 7, 2024. The weather forecast is partly cloudy with a high of 95 and low of 75. Click here for more weather. Want to go deeper? Why not sign up for one of our focused newsletters such as Political Pulse on the latest election and government news. Sign up here. | | The court majority ruled the governor had the authority to remove Worrell for incompetence and neglect of duty. | | | A once-contentious tax aimed at preserving land from development in Osceola County is back on the ballot after nearly 20 years — and residents say it's more controversial than before. County commissioners Monday approved drafting an ordinance for a referendum on the November ballot to continue funding the environmental land conservation program with a 0.25 […] | | | Florida's Disney World oversight district is paying Orange County Elections Supervisor Glen Gilzean $20,000 a month through December as part of a consulting agreement quietly inked when he stepped down as administrator. | | | Ahead of Bill Cowles retirement, Orange County approved a sole-source agreement to buy $3.5 million in voting equipment from a company that employs the election chief's son. But Cowles said his son played no role in the deal. | | | Former Orlando Museum of Art director Aaron De Groft amended his lawsuit, after a judge dismissed the original version. The museum has responded. | | | Saturday's run will launch from City Hall Plaza rather than its seven-year home in Wadeview Park. This is the first Pulse remembrance event since the onePulse Foundation that led the memorial efforts went belly up last year. | | | Co-owner Michael Rogier, reached by phone Thursday morning at the closed Orlando restaurant, confirmed relocation efforts were underway but wouldn't reveal the new location. | | | Newly released federal court filings in the deadly April 11 carjacking in Winter Springs say the victim had $170,000 of drug money in the car that she picked from a man who put the wheels in motion for her killing. | | | By law, a mandatory review of Donald Trump's eligibility to vote in Florida as a convicted felon should have begun by now. It hasn't, and the trail of questions leads straight to Gov. Ron DeSantis. | | | The situation at the Mexican border is a crisis of human suffering and is due to the inaction of our elected officials, writes a local pastor who once resided in Texas near the situation. | | | |
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