The city of Orlando has promised to get more than $17 million in donations to victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting by Oct. 1. The OneOrlando Fund Board, whose 15 members were also announced Friday, will hold two town hall meetings Aug. 4 “to get feedback from the victim’s families, survivors and the Orlando community” on how the funds will be distributed. In the meantime, Kenneth Feinberg, the country’s foremost expert on victim compensation, is working with the OneOrlando Fund Board to develop a proposal to outline the distribution process. Feinberg was involved in compensating victims of some of the country’s worst tragedies, including the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the BP oil spill, the Boston Marathon bombing and the Aurora, Colo., theater shooting. The city brought him on as an adviser for the OneOrlando Fund on June 17. On Thursday, the city announced that it merged the $10 million from one fund with the $7 million from another. The full $10 million for the OneOrlando Fund will go to victims, the city wrote, since “no overhead or administrative costs will be paid for” out of the fund. The $7 million Equality Florida fund, however, was mostly raised through small donations on GoFundMe.com and is subject to a 7.9 percent fee, which by midmorning Friday would total $537,200. Two days after the attack, GoFundMe.com pitched in $100,000, which at that time waived the fee. A spokesman said the company did not anticipate another donation.
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