Thread by @HazenWESH

New Reedy Creek board members, appointed by Gov DeSantis, meeting now. Looks like they are looking at legal challenges to old board’s agreements with #Disney that give it wide reign over RCID land for next 30 years #WESH

Agreements were approved in last couple months before DeSantis’ members took over. The language says the agreements stay in effect no matter what the new members say #WESH

District’s Legal counsel says they just found out about these agreements that were approved in public meetings over the past several months. Calls them “unusual” and “suspect” #WESH

Basically it was #Disney’s insurance policy, giving them “certainty” in a very uncertain time when the Governor and Republican lawmakers were looking to overhaul Disney’s self-governing power #WESH

The DeSantis backed board’s special counsel calls Disney and the former board’s agreements “unlawful” #WESH

Reedy Creek’s administrator John Classe, who was in the same job when the Disney appointed members were in control, is here but hasn’t been asked about the agreements yet #WESH

New member Ron Peri says the agreements stripped the board of almost all its power and made #Disney the government here. He wants board to fight it
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The Special Counsel says Reedy Creek should hire more law firms so it can take on #Disney on even footing, using firms with “deeper bench.” #WESH

Reedy Creek, which used to be controlled by #Disney, now appears to be going to war with it #WESH

RCID board chair Martin Garcia laying out how rich and powerful Disney is, and may have to take “adversarial position” against the company.

Garcia suggests they might have to go to US Supreme Court in “protracted litigation” against #Disney #WESH

District is hiring outside law firms to wage the fight against #Disney

The board (more properly the Central Florida Tourism Oversight Board now) is making moves to eventually replace Administrator John Classe, who also served when the Disney-appointed members were in power.

Statement from #Disney:
“All agreements signed between Disney and the District were appropriate, and were discussed and approved in open, noticed public forums in compliance with Florida's Government in the Sunshine law.” #WESH

Here's the FL statute regarding development agreements:
leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index…

People (and a board member) seem interested in the “King Charles” clause in the RCID covenants, and so I was I when I first saw it, but apparently that is an actual thing in contracts:

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_liv….