If the Commissioners Plan A is another Safer Grant, and Plan B is a Tax Assessment (in a recent Lehigh Acres Citizen poll showed that 69% of the participates were against the assessment), so what is Plan C if A and B fail to save her son the Lehigh Acres firefighter?
Maybe it’s this:
1. Browning out two stations for 12 hours per day (rotating stations on the off peak time using historical data)
2. Changing firefighter schedules to 12 hours a day for 4 days on and three day off – verses – 24 hours on and 48 hours off plus one pay day off every two and half weeks.
These two items will immediately save the Fire District dollars within the first thirty days and millions over time that came be used to save jobs verses layoffs.
Also maintenance issues become easier to handle because you know when that station equipment is not being used.
These savings measures are 100% trackable and quantitative and should not be ignored.
If some of the Fire Board Commissioners would have started 4 years ago to address the financial problems evident today, perhaps there would be no planned layoffs or any presentation of inflated tax assessments to the Community.
I am not a wealthy man and this assessment will affect me greatly, along with 80,000 people in the Lehigh Acres area. I didn’t create this deficit of funding, the financial irresponsibility and lack of attention to the problem by the Fire Board did. No one in my Community should subsidize the negligence of the Board for their mismanagement of the very budget that they are Constitutionally required to maintain.
This message is not directed to our very dedicated fireman who risk their lives constantly to save us when we call 911. I have the utmost respect for all of them and their families.
I sincerely seek voters support in November to allow me the honor to attempt to bring back common sense to the Lehigh Acres Fire Board. Its my contention that if we financially tighten our belts, we can not only stop the necessity of any new assessments, we can also reduce the reduction of our most important assets, Lehigh Acres firemen. They are a part of our Community also and deserve our support.
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here is another yahoo who thinks that whatever these commissioner have inherited from the previous board will get fixed right away, well i noticed u were not at the last meeting thurs night discussing the following yrs budget…u sure as hell dont have my vote and most people in lehigh dont go to the meeting and only listen to guy like u and the editor here on the negative of the board…i have lived here over 25 yrs and the board and fire officials ran the dept into the problem we have…so we either cut the staff in half meaning firemen and get rid of the lehigh ambulance svc and let lee county do it for our taxes cover that and let see if a yr or so with less will get our local people a little more involved….bet they dont even though the insurance for there house will go up or if they are renting the rent will go up …come on lehigh residents lets get with the fire chief and ask him some questions…he is there for us and the men of the dept. thank u
mrs cathy kruse was my 4th grade teacher.my name is chloe. mrs kruse is a the best teacher i ever had.
ATTENTION MS. KATHY KRUSE.
THERE WAS A ARTICLE AND IN THAT ARTICLE YOUMADE A VERY CRUCIAL REMARK ABOUT THE DISABLE HANDICSPP ELDERLY PEOPLE HERE AT THE PRESBYTERIAN HOMES.
YOU WILL REGRET FOR MAKING A REMARK ON THE.PEOPLE HERE AT PRESBTERIAN HOMES OF LEHIGH ACRES. I WILL BE AT THE NEXT MEETING WHICH IS AUGUST 30TH 2016 AT 5:00PM..I WILL HAVE MY EVIDENCE AND WILL HOLD YOU FOR YOUR REMARK..SEE YOU AT THE MEETING..