TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Today, Florida Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Jimmy Patronis distributed a video that targets businesses in New York encouraging them to relocate to Florida. The video serves as a follow up correspondence to the same businesses the CFO issued letters to in August. The letters from the CFO focus on the state’s poor fiscal management and disinterest in supporting business growth. To view the video to New York businesses, click HERE.

CFO Jimmy Patronis said, “As the state’s Chief Financial Officer, a fourth-generation Floridian and a former small business owner, my mission is to encourage businesses in New York to consider moving to the great state of Florida. New York is currently in a dire budget crisis with little to no progress being made while the state is facing a revenue shortfall of $14 billion in the current fiscal year and $16 billion in 2022. Even before COVID, New York has always been poor at managing money and year after year, they continue to spend money they don’t have. I am encouraging businesses who are considering the move to reach out to my office. Unlike New York, Florida won’t take your business for granted.”

 

IBM

JPMorgan Chase

PricewaterhouseCoopers International

Citi

Verizon Wireless

ABM Industries

Omnicom Group

Pepsi Co.

Marsh & McLennan Companies

NBCUniversal

Morgan Stanley

MetLife, Inc.

American Express Company

Goldman Sachs

Kohlberg & Company

Sony Corporation of America

Foot Locker

WarnerMedia

JetBlue Airways Corporation

Ralph Lauren Corporation

S&P Global Inc.

M&T Bank Corporation

Loews Hotels

CFO Patronis served on Governor Ron DeSantis’s Re-Open Florida Taskforce and serves on the Enterprise Florida, Inc. Board.