The citizens panel assembled to screen funding requests for future tourist-tax revenue will meet Monday for a final time to take up issues Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings believes they shouldn’t. Some task force members want to explore how the county might spend tourist-tax millions not just to expand the Orange County Convention Center, fund ad campaigns to lure visitors to theme parks or .
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It was tremendously disappointing to watch the task force convened to seek out the best uses for Orange County’s bed tax — formally known as the tourism development tax — be quickly corralled away from any conclusions that would be truly innovative or transformative. Instead, the task force was carefully herded toward a set of recommendations that favored the county’s biggest venues: The Amway .
I rarely recommend people watch government meetings — unless maybe they have insomnia or a fondness for self-flagellation. But if you want to understand how feverishly the tourism lobby in this community works to keep a stranglehold on politics and politicians in Central Florida, I have one for you to watch. It was the second-to-last meeting of Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings’ task force on .
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