{"id":13375,"date":"2012-09-15T20:45:03","date_gmt":"2012-09-16T01:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=13375"},"modified":"2012-09-15T20:45:03","modified_gmt":"2012-09-16T01:45:03","slug":"fire-department-facing-shortfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2012\/09\/fire-department-facing-shortfall\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire Department Facing Shortfall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?attachment_id=13166\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13166\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13166\" title=\"LAFD\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/LAFD-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/LAFD-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/LAFD.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The Lehigh Acres Fire and Rescue District is facing a1.9 million dollar shortfall according to commissioners .<\/p>\n<p>Friday night, commissioners adopted\u00a0 roughly a 24 million dollar budget.\u00a0 Chief Adams said because one of\u00a0 its grants mandates that the department\u00a0 keeps a certain amount of staff and trucks at all its stations,\u00a0this deficit will not affect positions or services.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But that&#8217;s also one of the reason why our expenditures are so high because of these stipulations&#8230; as personnel costs and trucks and services, nothing is going to change,&#8221; said finance manager, Ben\u00a0Van Klingeren.<\/p>\n<p>Lehigh Acres Fire and Rescue District spokesperson said it is planning on dipping into reserve funds to balance the budget.\u00a0 The final budget hearing will be st 5 p.m., Sept. 25, 2012, at Station 104 located at <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=3102+16th+Street+SW&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;hq=&amp;hnear=0x88db72887249ab55:0xb449ebc9d4b1c2f0,3102+16th+St+SW,+Lehigh+Acres,+FL+33976&amp;gl=us&amp;ei=ceBUULeKLsTE2gWoxYCQBw&amp;ved=0CCEQ8gEwAA\">3102 16th Street SW<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lehigh Acres Fire and Rescue District is facing a1.9 million dollar shortfall according to commissioners . Friday night, commissioners adopted\u00a0 roughly a 24 million dollar budget.\u00a0 Chief Adams said&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":13166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}