Opinion: Sad to Read City of Orlando Pulse Memorial Meeting Minutes

By Mark Baratelli

Edited January 7, 2017

You already know Barbara Poma shocked the City and the city December 5, 2016 by announcing she would not be selling the Pulse property to the City despite having been in talks with the City at the time. You already know what I think of that move: the City should take it through eminent domain. So it's no surprise that one day while I was thumbing through the City's Pulse public records and came across meeting minutes from meetings Mayor Dyer had with the Commissioners, I got sad. I wondered what could have been. I wish I had the pull to force the City to take that property and give those lost a proper, dignified and appropriate memorial. Below are the meeting minutes.