{"id":434920,"date":"2026-10-22T15:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T15:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/434920\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T15:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T15:16:10","slug":"talking-central-florida-a-community-conversation-about-amendment-3-orlando-sentinel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/434920\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking Central Florida: A community conversation about Amendment 3 \u2013 Orlando Sentinel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week on Talking Central Florida, regional officials have an in-depth discussion about Amendment 3 and what it means for homeowners and local governments.<\/p>\n<p>Lauren Melendez and Christopher Heath from WKMG News 6 host a community conversation looking at both sides of the debate over property taxes, and how an increase in the homestead exemption will impact Floridians, city and county budgets, and public services.<\/p>\n<p>This program was a production of WKMG News 6 and the News Collaborative. It first aired live on News 6 on September 28, 2026. Panelists included:<\/p>\n<p>State Rep. Ryan Chamberlin (R-Marion County)<br \/>Amy Mercado, Orange County Property Appraiser<br \/>Caroline Melear, Director of Finance and Insurance, R Street Institute<br \/>Harold Theus, Executive Director, Florida Fire Chiefs\u2019 Association<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@TalkingCentralFlorida\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Talking Central Florida<\/a> is hosted by Steve Mort. The show gets in-depth analysis from the journalists covering our region\u2019s most important issues.<\/p>\n<p>The show is a production of the News Collaborative of Central Florida with support from Central Florida Public Media, the Orlando Sentinel, the Winter Park Voice, and the Central Florida Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>View every podcast from the show at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@TalkingCentralFlorida\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">youtube.com\/@TalkingCentralFlorida<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This week on Talking Central Florida, regional officials have an in-depth discussion about Amendment 3 and what it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2811,29,114,266,115,139,141,140,99,109,80971],"class_list":["post-434920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-election","tag-florida-news","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-politics","tag-social","tag-talking-central-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}