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• Commissioners will work through a $3.96 billion budget proposal for Orange County for the 2017-2018 fiscal year.
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• A new ordinance will change how and where public and charter schools are built in fast growing Orange County. The rules were approved Tuesday by the County Board of Commissioners.
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• Betsy VanderLey and Emily Bonilla will have a say in what happens at the county level for four years for Districts 1 and 5 respectively. Both women took oath at the Orange County Board of County Commissioners’ swearing in ceremony Tuesday morning at the Orange County Convention Center.
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• Orange County commissioners will have an extra $21.7 million to spend this fiscal year thanks to excess revenue, $3.2 million more than last year. Tax Collector Scott Randolph attributes the cash hike to higher property values during the 2015-2016 fiscal year. He is asking commissioners to put some of the money toward getting air conditioning at the county’s animal shelter.
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• A renaissance of urban egg farming across the country has Orange County leaders considering whether to allow residents to raise backyard chickens. The board of commissioners will talk about it at their meeting Tuesday.
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• Orange County commissioners will hear from residents this afternoon before voting on a proposal aimed at protecting children in and around day care centers. The proposed ordinance is in response to a car collision in 2014 that left a four-year-old dead and others injured.
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• Orange County commissioners will hear an appeal today from school district officials and residents to deny a developer’s proposal to build two charter schools in the Avalon Park planned community.
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• For some homeless families in Orange County, the transition from the streets into houses will be quicker than before. Orange County Commissioners approved a $1.5 million contract this afternoon for a rapid rehousing service. According to a recent report, rapid rehousing, or housing-first initiatives, are a more effective way to curb central Florida’s chronic homelessness problem among families.
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• An Avalon Park developer is meeting with Orange County school district officials this afternoon to discuss his plan to build five new relief schools.
90.7’s Renata Sago reports, backers of a relief middle school in Timber Springs are calling the last-minute proposal a “political game” and students quote “pawns.”
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• Orange County commissioners have pushed back deciding the fate of a relief middle school in Timber Springs.
As 90.7’s Renata Sago reports, the board is considering a developer’s proposal to build and pay for five new schools that could open as soon as next year.
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