In February, DeSantis signed legislation appointing an oversight board to oversee the Disney district and removed its self-governing status.
"Once the state board took over, we began mobilizing state agencies to ensure that Disney's following the same rules, building inspections, safety, all these other things that they were exempt from [that] everybody else has to follow," DeSantis said this week.that prior to the oversight board, Disney has had"extraordinary special privileges and an unfair, special advantage," over other businesses in the state.
More recently, the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District said this month that Disney and the Reedy Creek Improvement District reached a new agreement that allowed the theme park to set"Last Friday afternoon I learned for the first time about one of these new 11th-hour agreements entered into between Disney and the district...This one relates to our utility services," Chairman Martin Garcia said this week.
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