P-22-05Reimagining the Tourism Development Tax for Orlando's Future · claim-level record
Require community benefits from tourism investment
Voters could reasonably understand this as a mayoral commitment to require community benefits from tourism investment during the next administration.
- Authority
- shared
- Confidence
- limited
- Material cost
- No
- Last reviewed
- 2026-07-15
The claim
any public investment in the tourism economy must be tied to community benefit agreements
What voters are likely to hear
Voters could reasonably understand this as a mayoral commitment to require community benefits from tourism investment during the next administration.
What the mayor actually controls
- Authority level
- shared
- City Hall controls
- None directly
- City Hall does not control
- Delivery depends on City Council and one or more independent agencies, governments, nonprofit providers, employers, or private participants.
What implementation requires
- A written implementation scope and public deadline
- Interagency or private-partner agreement
- Legal review, public process, and adoption by the required decision-maker
What it would cost
Cost-estimation limitation
No separate program or capital appropriation is modeled for this legal, policy, governance, or advocacy commitment. Staff time is not cost-free, and the campaign does not provide a staffing allocation that supports a defensible estimate.
- Campaign-identified funding
- None identified for this claim
- Funding still unidentified
- No separate gap recorded
What already exists
What Eskamani has previously done
Tourist-development-tax reform proposal did not receive a recorded vote
No TDT authority changed. HB 6007 was filed and referred, then died in the House Ways and Means Committee.
People's Platform campaign-promise inventory
The campaign published a 28-section platform that this project has separated into 294 independently testable promise records.
The strongest evidence
Evidence supporting the finding
The campaign’s primary platform page publishes this commitment in the cited section.
Evidence that qualifies the finding
The cited governing or program record qualifies unilateral mayoral authority, existing-program overlap, or the delivery path.
The unresolved problem
The campaign does not identify the legal instrument, decision-maker sequence, deadline, or measurable completion standard for this individual commitment.
The accountability question
For "Require community benefits from tourism investment," what is the eligibility or scope, deadline, annual city cost, outside-approval sequence, and public completion measure?