Senate Bill sb3056

    Florida Senate - 2004        (NP)                      SR 3056

    By Senator Webster





    9-2247-04

  1                    Senate Resolution No. ____

  2         A resolution recognizing the many contributions

  3         made by The Walt Disney Company to the economic

  4         and cultural health of the State of Florida.

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  6         WHEREAS, The Walt Disney Company has created a world

  7  class resort in Florida known as Walt Disney World Resort,

  8  which has four theme parks, two water parks, more than twenty

  9  hotels, four vacation club properties, five championship golf

10  courses, the Wide World of Sports Complex, and Downtown

11  Disney, and

12         WHEREAS, The Walt Disney Company employs 51,000

13  Floridians, making Orlando's Walt Disney World Resort one of

14  the largest single-site employers in the United States, and

15         WHEREAS, The Walt Disney Company continued to make

16  capital investments in Walt Disney World Resort, even after a

17  decline in the tourism economy following the terrorists

18  attacks inflicted against this country, and

19         WHEREAS, The Walt Disney Company has helped to

20  transform Port Canaveral into the second largest cruise port

21  in the world, and

22         WHEREAS, on an annual basis The Walt Disney Company

23  pays over $400 million in state and local taxes in Florida,

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25         WHEREAS, The Walt Disney Company has contributed cash

26  and in-kind support worth more than $87 million in support of

27  community services to the central Florida community over the

28  past 5 years, and

29         WHEREAS, The Walt Disney Company has been an enormous

30  asset to the State of Florida, not just in economic terms, but

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    Florida Senate - 2004        (NP)                      SR 3056
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 1  in cultural terms, providing wholesome family vacations to

 2  Floridians as well as tourists from throughout the world, and

 3         WHEREAS, The Walt Disney Company has been an

 4  unparalleled friend and corporate partner to the State of

 5  Florida, NOW, THEREFORE,

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 7  Be It Resolved by the Senate of the State of Florida:

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 9         That The Walt Disney Company is commended for its

10  outstanding leadership and lasting commitment to the State of

11  Florida, and all Floridians look forward to the future

12  continuation of this long and prosperous partnership.

13         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this resolution,

14  with the Seal of the Senate affixed, be presented to Michael

15  Eisner, Chief Executive Officer of The Walt Disney Company, as

16  a tangible token of the sentiments of the Florida Senate.

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