At Wednesday, May 8, 2019, special fire board meeting two voters tried to get the board to answer questions concerning the new fire fee assessment.
The questions had to deal with the exemptions to the fire fee assessment … The voters found out that the board does not have the resolution done.
The resolution is the document that tells the Lee County tax collector who is able to get an exemption on the fire fee assessment.
The voters complained … “You want us to vote for this assessment but you as a board does not know who will be exempt or not”.
Currently, four of the five Lehigh Acres Fire Commissioners are exempt for the current fire fee assessment.
The board members refused to answer the voter’s questions and told the two female voters to leave or the board would call the sheriff office and they would be removed and arrested.
Is this the way a local government should treat constituents?
There were only six people that can to the meeting from the public. So the board chairman could not or does not know how to control a public meeting?
What is the fire board hiding?
Why wouldn’t the fire chief or the fire board commissioners allow on-camera interviews?