{"id":23144,"date":"2013-05-09T16:50:26","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T20:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=23144"},"modified":"2013-05-09T19:38:36","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T23:38:36","slug":"lafd-announces-agreement-with-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2013\/05\/lafd-announces-agreement-with-union\/","title":{"rendered":"LAFD Announces <br>Agreement With Union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-13166\" title=\"LAFD\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/LAFD-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"141\" 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: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/>Lehigh Acres Fire announced today an agreement has been reached on the contract with IAFF Local 1826, District 6 bargaining unit from the period of Oct. 1, 2012 to September 30, 2015. According to fire district staff, the previous employment contract with the IAFF Local 1826 District 6 bargaining unit had expired in September of last year. Management had provided a tentatively agreed upon contract to be unilaterally ratified by the fire board and the union. New pay and benefit concessions will take effect on the first pay day in July of this year which July 11, 2013. District 6 agreed to furlough days and to pay 16% towards medical insurance.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Fire boards\u2019 attorney told the board that he had met with Rep. Matthew Caldwell and that a bill to change the way the district and other districts in the state are supported solely by ad valorem taxes did not make it out of a House Committee. However, he said Caldwell told him, the bill is being attached to another bill (Bill 1410) which was being considered before the legislature ends its session. The bill would allow fire districts to establish assessment fees for funding, but the measure would have to come up for a public vote in 2014. The bill would stipulate that fire districts could be funded either by assessment fees or by ad valorem taxes, but not both, according to Pringle.<\/p>\n<p>The bill did pass both the House and Senate and is waiting for the Governor Scott to sign it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lehigh Acres Fire announced today an agreement has been reached on the contract with IAFF Local 1826, District 6 bargaining unit from the period of Oct. 1, 2012 to September&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\/23144"}],"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=23144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23144\/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=23144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}