Officials: Orlando needs better roads and trains to attract young talent - WESH 2 Orlando

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Officials: Orlando needs amended roads and trains to pull young talent, jobs

FEW SHOWERS IN THE FORECAST, COMING UP. SANIKA: THANK YOU. TO BRING THE JOBS OF THE FUTURE TO ORLANDO WE NEED BETTER ROADS , AND TRAINS. THAT WAS THE MESSAGE FROM THE MAYORS OF ORLANDO, AND ORANGE COUNTY TODAY AT A CONFERENCE IN DOWNTOWN. WESH 2’S BOB HAZEN IS AT THE DR. PHILLIPS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER. BOB, THEY USED THIS TO PUSH FOR A SALES TAX INCREASE. BOB: THE MAYORS BOTH NOTED 1500 PEOPLE ARE MOVING TO CENTRAL FLORIDA EVERY WEEK, MOST OF THOSE INVOLVED TECH SECTOR JOBS AND THAT IS WHY IT IS IMPORTANT TO PASS THE TAX SO WE CAN GET THE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM READY FOR THE FUTURE. THIS CONFERENCE GOING ON IS CALLED THE SYNAPSE ORLANDO CONFERENCE, ABOUT 2000 PEOPLE ARE AT THE DR. PHILLIPS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, MANY OF THEM FROM TECH COMPANIES. A BIG FOCUS HERE IS VIRTUAL REALITY AND THE METAVERSE. BUT ON A PANEL HERE, ORANGE COUNTY MAYOR JERRY DEMINGS AND ORLANDO MAYOR BUDDY DYER BROUGHT IT BACK TO THE REAL WORLD, PUSHING FOR THE 1 CENT SALES TAX INCREASE THEY HOPE VOTERS WILL APPROVE. THEY SAID IT WOULD PAY FOR TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENTS THAT WILL HELP ATTRACT TECH WORKERS, AND COMPANIES, TO ORLANDO. >> YOUNGER, TALENTED PEOPLE THAT WILL MAKE OUR COMMUNITY SUCCESSFUL DON’T EVEN OWN A CAR, THEY WANT TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO GET SOMEWHERE USING MASS TRANSIT AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT THE PENNY SALES TAX WILL DO IS ENHANCE OUR PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION. BOB: THAT PENNY SALES TAX INCREASE WILL BE ON THE BALLO

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Officials: Orlando needs amended roads and trains to pull young talent, jobs

To bring the jobs of the aboriginal to Orlando, we request amended roads and trains.That was the connection from the mayors of Orlando, and Orange County Friday astatine a league downtown.They noted that 1,500 radical a week are moving to Central Florida and tech jobs are a large portion of that. That is wherefore they accidental we request to walk the taxation and get our proscription strategy acceptable for the future.About 2,000 radical were astatine this Synapse Orlando league astatine the Dr. Phillips Performing Arts Center. Many of them were from tech companies. A large absorption was virtual world and the metaverse.On a panel, Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings and Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer brought it backmost to the existent world, pushing for the 1 cent income taxation summation they anticipation voters volition approve.They said it would wage for proscription improvements that volition assistance pull tech workers and companies to Orlando. "These younger talented radical who are going to marque our assemblage palmy don't adjacent ain a car, they privation to fig retired however to get determination utilizing wide transit, and 1 of the things that the penny income taxation volition bash is heighten our nationalist transportation," Dyer said.That penny income taxation summation volition beryllium connected the ballot adjacent month.

To bring the jobs of the aboriginal to Orlando, we request amended roads and trains.

That was the connection from the mayors of Orlando, and Orange County Friday astatine a league downtown.

They noted that 1,500 radical a week are moving to Central Florida and tech jobs are a large portion of that. That is wherefore they accidental we request to walk the taxation and get our proscription strategy acceptable for the future.

About 2,000 radical were astatine this Synapse Orlando league astatine the Dr. Phillips Performing Arts Center. Many of them were from tech companies. A large absorption was virtual world and the metaverse.

On a panel, Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings and Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer brought it backmost to the existent world, pushing for the 1 cent income taxation summation they anticipation voters volition approve.

They said it would wage for proscription improvements that volition assistance pull tech workers and companies to Orlando.

"These younger talented radical who are going to marque our assemblage palmy don't adjacent ain a car, they privation to fig retired however to get determination utilizing wide transit, and 1 of the things that the penny income taxation volition bash is heighten our nationalist transportation," Dyer said.

That penny income taxation summation volition beryllium connected the ballot adjacent month.

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