Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer is seeking $5 million from Orange County to help build a long-sought permanent memorial to the 2016 Pulse nightclub massacre, but his request is facing early resistance, in a sign of lingering bitterness over the failure of earlier memorial plans.

After assuming leadership over creating the Pulse nightclub shooting memorial and a monthslong process to come up with a realistic concept for it, Orlando leaders are turning to Orange County to get the memorial over the finish line.