Fellow 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 can avoid tax and fee increases for years to come without impacting essential services!

One place we have lots of money (there are many) is in the Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA). The current CRA fund balance includes about $9,000,000 of our tax dollars intended for projects that do nothing to help our residents. The CRA board (our city commission plus one member appointed by Orange County) can end CRA projects and the CRA itself, returning about $9,000,000 to the General Fund right now. Further, terminating the CRA would return more than $80,000,000 over the next 10 years to support our residents, instead of special interests.

As an example, the CRA just wasted about $1,000,000 on "Memorial Corner" with a life sized statue of MLK that has been panned nationally. A simple plaque would have been sufficient.