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With Orange County mayor’s new memo, tourist-tax plan appears set
Orlando Sentinel via Yahoo News· 4 months agoOrange County Mayor Jerry Demings has blessed a plan to cut tourist tax revenues for the Visit...
Orlando venues shut out of Orange County’s tourist-tax funding – for now
Orlando Sentinel via Yahoo News· 7 months agoOrange County commissioners doled out nearly $800 million in future tourist-tax revenues this week...
Orange County commissioners postpone decision on tourist-tax spending
Orlando Sentinel via Yahoo News· 9 months agoOrange County commissioners finished a long, feisty discussion Tuesday about how to spend future millions of tourist-tax dollars without making a decision, despite nudging by Mayor Jerry Demings ...
Orange County’s Tourist Council rubber-stamps TDT task force report
Orlando Sentinel via Yahoo News· 10 months agoOrange County’s Tourist Development Council, which usually evaluates projects wanting tourist-tax funding, rubber-stamped the report of a citizens advisory panel recommending a convention center ...
Orange County to offer tips to apply for gig worker, business grants
Orlando Sentinel via Yahoo News· 10 months agoOrange County government, poised to give way $26 million beginning Tuesday to qualifying small businesses and “gig” workers, will offer an online class Monday to explain eligibility and how ...
Tourist-tax task force recommends more funding for arts, sports
Orlando Sentinel via Yahoo News· 11 months agoPricey projects for the Orange County Convention Center and Camping World Stadium led the headlines last week, but a task force evaluating tourist-tax funding also recommended millions more ...
South Florida mayors back bid to dissolve travel visa backlog
South Florida Sun Sentinel via Yahoo News· 1 year agoMore than a half dozen South and Central Florida mayors have hopped aboard a national travel industry campaign to persuade the U.S. State Department to speed up visa application interviews abroad ...
Orange tourist tax panelist quits, says ‘deck seems stacked’ for convention center expansion
Orlando Sentinel via Yahoo News· 11 months agoA former Orlando Sentinel columnist resigned from a mayoral advisory panel studying possible uses...
Comptroller Diamond warns about tourist tax ‘roller coaster’
Orlando Sentinel via Yahoo News· 1 year agoWith hopeful applicants –– including a group that wants to bring big-league baseball to Orlando –– lining up for a share of tourist tax funding, Orange County Comptroller Phil Diamond instead ...
