{"id":31418,"date":"2014-06-21T19:35:47","date_gmt":"2014-06-21T23:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=31418"},"modified":"2014-06-21T19:38:58","modified_gmt":"2014-06-21T23:38:58","slug":"last-chance-to-say-your-peace-before-i-goes-to-a-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2014\/06\/last-chance-to-say-your-peace-before-i-goes-to-a-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Chance To Say Your Peace<br> Before It Goes To A Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-29525\" title=\"Fireman Spray Money\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Fireman-Spray-Money-300x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Fireman-Spray-Money-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Fireman-Spray-Money.png 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>The Fire District has proposed the following non-ad valorem assessment rates for fire protection and emergency rescue services, facilities, and programs:<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Residential property = $292.00 (flat rate)<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0per improved residential parcel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Commercial property = $0.35 per sq. ft<\/span><\/strong>. per improved\u00a0commercial parcel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Industrial\/Warehouse property = $0.06 per sq. ft.<\/strong><\/span> per improved\u00a0industrial\/warehouse parcel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Institutional property = $0.52 per sq. ft<\/strong><\/span>. per improved\u00a0institutional parcel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><strong><span style=\"color: #339966;\">Unimproved land = $21.00 per acre<\/span><\/strong> (or portion thereof) *Minimum 1 acre and Maximum of 10 acres<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Editorial note<\/strong> &#8212; <span style=\"color: #800000;\">$292 flat rate is not a fair and equitable method<\/span> is makes the poor poorer and the rich richer \u2026 it taxes a smaller homes at a higher rate and larger homes at a lower rate.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Lehigh Acres Fire Control and Rescue District will be held on\u00a0June 24, 2014\u00a0and will begin at 5:00 p.m. The meeting will be held at Lehigh Acres Fire Control and Rescue District, Station 104, 3102 16th St SW, Lehigh Acres, FL 33976<\/strong>.\u00a0 <!--more-->Meetings will\u00a0be conducted within the apparatus bay (accessible from the rear of the building) or in the classroom (accessible from the south parking lot). Accommodations for parking include the parking lot on the south and west side of building. The purpose of the meeting is to conduct District business and to take official action on any and all other business to come before the Board of Commissioners. Anyone wishing to appeal any action of the Board of Commissioners at any of the above referenced meeting(s) is responsible to have a verbatim record made, which record includes the testimony and evidence upon which the appeal is based. If an individual requires special aid or services as addressed in the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), please contact Chief\u00a0John Wayne (239) 303-5300.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fire District has proposed the following non-ad valorem assessment rates for fire protection and emergency rescue services, facilities, and programs:Residential property = $292.00 (flat rate)\u00a0per improved residential parcel Commercial&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":29525,"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\/31418"}],"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=31418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}