East Orlando HOA

Recently, the Orlando Sentinel published an article on the incorporation effort currently underway in east Orange County.

The author of the article, Rich McKay, admitted that he was rushed, shorthanded and apologized in advance for any errors.

Although there were a few errors, they are minor in compared with the positive effect of raising awareness for this effort. Thank you again Rich, and please forgive us for stating some corrections below.

John Tenney’s quote should have been “It’s about control and accountability. It’s also possible we can improve services such as police protection, new road construction (in particular work on Alafaya Trail) and crime prevention.” There was no mention of cutting lawns

It should be James DeCocq, not John, and he says “at the end of the day it appears to be break even or better.”

Here is the original article:

We have a question or two for Linda Stewart:

1: Why would expenses that are currently the county’s responsibility suddenly fall upon the city? Such as sewers, roads and water? This is an incorporation, not a secession.

2: How is your own city of Bell Isle doing it? Did they raise taxes a large amount to incorporate? We see that they are forming their own police department now. Did that involve a city wide assessment?

posted by John Tenney

James DeCocq presented to 16 concerned East Orlando citizens

East Orlando HOA hosted a city incorporation meeting at Boston Coffee House this evening, with James DeCocq and Mayra Etayo of NJC Corporate Enterprises explaining to us the steps that need to be taken to start a new city in East Orlando.

“It’s all about control and accountability.” Host John Tenney said. “Right now the county has all the control and very little accountability to the citizens of East Orlando. If they do something great for us we are happy, but if they stall us or otherwise treat us badly (as in the Alafaya Trail widening and extension) we have very few options of recourse.”

DeCocq explained how the control of the tax money would be in the hands of the city council, rather than the county commissioners.

“What we need now are more awareness meetings.” said DeCocq. “The county may not want us to take control of our funds and may fight us with marketing campaigns. We would like to continue showing this presentation to small groups, no more than 20 people at a time, and raise awareness of what is needed.”

If you would like to host a small group presentation, please use the contact link on this website.