The shakeup of Walt Disney World’s governing district more than a year after it was taken over by Gov. Ron DeSantis’ appointees continues with the departure of its board chairman. Martin Garcia’s departure as chairman of the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District is coming a week after the district’s administrator left.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis listens to Central Florida Tourism Oversight District board chairman Martin Garcia, right, deliver remarks during a news conference at CFTOD headquarters at Walt Disney World, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., Feb. 22, 2024. The shake-up of Walt Disney World’s governing district more than a year after it was taken over by Gov. DeSantis’ appointees continued Wednesday, March 13, 2024 with the departure of its board chairman who had been highly critical of Disney.
Garcia “developed a new district focused on transparency and the elimination of corporate welfare,” Griffin said. Since the takeover last year, the district has faced an exodus of experienced staffers and lots of litigation. The district provides municipal services such as firefighting, planning and mosquito control, among other things, and was controlled by Disney supporters for most of its five decades., publicly opposed a state law that critics have called “Don’t Say Gay.
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