About the Audit
A municipal feasibility audit, not a campaign.
OrlandoFirst.city reviews published policy commitments the way an oversight office would review a proposed workplan: against legal authority, operating structure, and documented funding capacity. Classifications read as administrative review, not campaign messaging.
What this is
An independent civic-research project that classifies every published policy commitment in the Orlando mayor race through eight scoring categories and six review standards: legal authority, operational ownership, recurring funding, implementation timeline, existing program overlap, and legal or fiscal exposure.
commitments are currently in the inventory, each linked to the statute, charter provision, or budget line that determines whether the City of Orlando can actually deliver it.
What this is not
Not a campaign. We do not endorse, oppose, fundraise for, or coordinate with any candidate, party, political committee, or PAC.
Not an opinion column. We do not grade ideology or whether a policy is good or bad — only whether the office of mayor can directly deliver it.
Not candidate advocacy. The same rubric applies to every audited record, including named candidate records still under source review.
Not a fact-check column. We classify implementation feasibility against published source records.
The four classifications
Every commitment is sorted into one of four operating conditions. These are implementation classifications, not value judgments.
State Preempted
— the mayor lacks direct legal authority; execution requires state action.
Mixed Authority
— parts are deliverable; the headline promise runs into preemption, fragility, or outside control.
External Coordination
— delivery depends on another board, county agency, state office, or public authority the mayor cannot compel.
Within Authority
— the city can act directly, subject to budget, staffing, and execution quality.
Source-bound by design
Every classification on the site links back to Florida statute, legislative session records, or official city budget documents.
state constraints currently track in the
preemption registry
; the full source ledger is in the
legislative repository
. The reasoning at every step is in the
audit methodology
Order-of-magnitude precision
Dollar ranges on this site are independent, order-of-magnitude annualized estimates derived from public comparables, per-unit costs, and the City of Orlando's adopted budget line items. They are not figures supplied in the published platform materials. Ranges are intentionally wide because they capture the difference between a small pilot and a citywide rollout — which is exactly the detail a feasibility audit is meant to surface.
Corrections welcome
Material corrections are reflected directly on the relevant audit pages. Send specific source-backed corrections by emailing
corrections@orlandofirst.city
. Broader civic questions belong in the
Civic Courage Forum
. The full corrections policy is published at
Independence
OrlandoFirst.city is an independent civic-research project. It is not affiliated with any campaign, party, political committee, or PAC. The site does not run advertising trackers or sell data; the full data-handling policy is at
Public accountability is held under the stable pseudonymous editor identity
Press inquiries
Press kit, key facts, and brand assets are at
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