{"id":31519,"date":"2014-06-29T14:36:22","date_gmt":"2014-06-29T18:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=31519"},"modified":"2014-06-29T14:36:22","modified_gmt":"2014-06-29T18:36:22","slug":"fire-chief-admits-to-tax-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2014\/06\/fire-chief-admits-to-tax-increase\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire Chief Admits <br>To Tax Increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_31520\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31520\" style=\"width: 292px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31520\" title=\"Fire Chief John Wayne\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Fire-Chief-John-Wayne.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"292\" height=\"286\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31520\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fire Chief John Wayne<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Fire Chief John Wayne has admitted at the last fire board meeting that 50% plus 1 of residential properties would see a tax increase if the fire assessment is passed.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>But that\u2019s really not all the truth<\/strong><\/span> \u2026 Lehigh Acres Gazette reporters contacted the Honorable Kenneth Wilkinson at Lee County Property Appraiser\u2019s Office to do the computation of the numbers. Craig Herrera of the data service division of Lee County Property Appraiser\u2019s Office emailed us the following information.<\/p>\n<p>29,248 of the 31,143 single family residential properties will see a tax increase (based on the 2013 tax roll) if the fire assessment is passed, that\u2019s 91.08% and not the 50% plus 1 as Chief Wayne said.<\/p>\n<p>1165 of the 1168 of the condominiums properties will see a tax increase (based on the 2013 tax roll) if the fire assessment is passed, that\u2019s 99.7%<\/p>\n<p>And 2109 of the 2123 of the Multi-Family Less than 10 properties will see a tax increase (based on the 2013 tax roll) if the fire assessment is passed, that\u2019s 99.3%<\/p>\n<p>In the approved fire board\u2019s resolution 14-06-01 it states, \u201c<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>The district has determined that it will be able to provide property <span style=\"color: #000000;\">tax relief <\/span>if a non-ad valorem assessment program is imposed to fund provision of fire and rescue services, facilities, and programs<\/em><\/strong><\/span>\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>So what is tax relief?<\/strong> \u00a0<strong><span style=\"color: #339966;\">Tax Relief is any program or incentive that reduces the amount of tax owed by an individual or business entity<\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">So where is the tax relief Fire Board<\/span><\/strong>, when the Lee County Property Appraiser\u2019s Office says 29,248 of the 31,143 single family residential properties will see a tax increase if approved.<\/p>\n<p>Also the fire board\u2019s resolution 14-06-01 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><em>does not exempt<\/em><\/strong><\/span> 501 (c)3 organizations such as churches and organizations like Lehigh Community Services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fire Chief John Wayne has admitted at the last fire board meeting that 50% plus 1 of residential properties would see a tax increase if the fire assessment is passed.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":31520,"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\/31519"}],"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=31519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}