Oath of Office Ceremony for Mayor Buddy Dyer

Mayor Buddy Dyer
Oath of Office Ceremony on May 1, 2008 / 2 p.m.
at the Walt Disney Amphitheater at Lake Eola Park

All Orlando residents are invited to join the City of Orlando for the Oath of Office ceremony. The ceremony, open to the public, will swear in Mayor Dyer, District 2 Commissioner-elect Tony Ortiz and District 4 Commissioner Patty Sheehan for a four-year term.

Mayor Dyer was born in Orlando and raised in nearby Kissimmee. A successful attorney in private practice, Mayor Dyer was first elected to public office in 1992. Upon being re-elected for his first four year full term in 2004, Mayor Dyer outlined a list of initiatives to accomplish during his tenure in office.

The following outlines a few of Mayor Dyer’s accomplishments during his first four years in office:

• Mayor Dyer added 75 police officers to the street force and 45 new fire personnel and is building two new police stations and 3 new fire stations.
• Invested resources to ensure neighborhood improvement
• Served as only municipality to fund Commuter Rail effort increasing multi-modal transit option for the entire Central Florida region.
• Approved the vision and plan to develop world-class regional Community Venues
• Continued “Pathways for Parramore” initiative including expanding the “Parramore Kidz Zone” to provide after school activities, access to health care and social services to children and families.
• Developed unprecedented public/private partnership to lay the foundation for a Medical City at Lake Nona..
• Recruited House of Moves, the world’s largest motion capture service bureau, to co-locate an east coast operation in the Downtown Orlando Creative Village at the Florida Interactive Entertainment Academy..
• Launched a pre-kindergarten initiative and doubled the number of high quality pre-kindergarten classrooms in the city.
• Opened the downtown campuses of the Florida A&M College of Law, UCF’s School of Film and Digital Media and championed getting a medical school for UCF in east Orlando.
• Balanced the budget and placed public safety as a top priority, making up a $23 million budget shortfall in Mayor Dyer’s first thirty days in office and has continued to do so each year thereafter.

NFi Studios, Orlando, Florida takes this opportunity to congratulate Mayor Buddy Dyer for all his achievements and wish him and his staff continued success in the four years to come!