Subject: A Real Opportunity For Property Tax Reform
A Real Opportunity For Property Tax Reform
June 6th, 2026 at 5:23 am EDTView onlineFellow Winter Park Residents, Please share with friends and neighbors. Squirming over the property tax referendum has started. Numerous local officials, editorials, and bloggers are crying over the strong likelihood that passage of the p ...
UPDATE: Blue Bamboo Withdraws Sublease Request
May 13th, 2026 at 1:00 pm EDTView onlineFellow Winter Park Residents, Please share with friends and neighbors. This updates my message of May 11, 2026. NOTE: The Blue Bamboo has withdrawn its sublease request. The following is from an email from the Blue Bamboo President: The ...
Will the Commission Represent Your Interest?
May 11th, 2026 at 6:01 am EDTView onlineFellow Winter Park Residents, Please share with friends and neighbors. The city commission is considering a sublease proposal related to the old library building on New England Ave this coming Wednesday. I sent the commission the message ...
Oh No! My Special Interest May Not Get Funded!
February 21st, 2026 at 6:02 am EDTView onlineFellow Winter Park Residents, Please share with friends and neighbors. Hysteria from city commission members and staff over the state legislature's efforts to rein in out of control property taxes has started. Here are some quotes: Commi ...
Is Winter Park at Risk from Property Tax Reform?
February 15th, 2026 at 6:09 am EDTView onlineFellow Winter Park Residents, Please share with friends and neighbors. The State Legislature is considering various ways to reduce our property tax burden given the explosion in county and municipal spending and related property tax incr ...
Governor DeSantis Explains Winter Park's Problem
October 3rd, 2025 at 5:47 am EDTView onlineFellow Winter Park Residents, Please share with friends and neighbors. Governor DeSantis and Florida CFO Blaise Ingoglia held a press conference October 1st on the subject of county and city government waste. The video is linked below an ...
City Commission Votes For Good Policy
September 16th, 2025 at 6:08 am EDT[] View onlineFellow Winter Park Residents, Please share with friends and neighbors. Several readers have commented that my views of the policy decisions of the current city commission are negative. Perhaps that negativity is deserved but two recent ...
Increase In Electric Rates Better Than More Debt
September 2nd, 2025 at 5:45 am EDT[] View online Fellow Winter Park Residents, Please share with friends and neighbors. An increase in non-fuel electric rates between 5% to 15% for a few years is better for ratepayers than adding debt for 20 years. The city commission should not com ...
Mayor Loves To Spend Your Money
August 15th, 2025 at 5:34 am EDTView onlineFellow Winter Park Residents, Please share with friends and neighbors. Mayor Sheila DeCiccio seems a bit defensive. When I criticized her purchase of the Winter Park Pines golf course without a voter referendum while promising it would p ...
CRA - Community Redevelopment Abomination
August 11th, 2025 at 5:56 am EDTView onlineFellow Winter Park Residents, Please share with friends and neighbors. Winter Park residents may be surprised to learn our city is flush with cash. There are many opportunities to reallocate money we have been wasting. The reality is we ...