FAC  

Influence Magazine  

Influence Magazine 2023 – Jeff Scala  

For most people, staying on top of policy opportunities for each of the state’s 67 counties would feel about as comfortable as a hand on a stove burner. Jeff Scala, who does that and much more for the Florida Association of Counties (FAC), has seized upon that kind of work like a kid with an Xbox. 

 

COUNTY 

The Daytona Beach News-Journal 

Flagler the third-fastest growing county in the fastest growing state  

Flagler County is the third-fastest-growing county in the fastest-growing state, a recent Census Bureau release shows. 

 

Orlando Sentinel  

Vision 2050 was praised as a ‘very good’ growth plan for Orange County, so what’s the problem?  

Vision 2050, the ambitious overhaul proposed for Orange County’s development blueprint, inspired one exuberant advocate last week to invoke the Shania Twain lyric “looks like we made it” and another proponent to dedicate comments to a friend who died on a morning jog in pedestrian-unfriendly Central Florida. 

 

LEGISLATION 

City & State FL 

Five bills Florida’s business community is focused on this session  

Florida businesses would have a way of striking back at local governments for passing ordinances they claim hurt their bottom line.