{"id":31639,"date":"2014-07-04T18:23:48","date_gmt":"2014-07-04T22:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=31639"},"modified":"2014-07-04T18:23:48","modified_gmt":"2014-07-04T22:23:48","slug":"so-did-the-fire-chief-lie-tothe-residents-about-this-tax-assessment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2014\/07\/so-did-the-fire-chief-lie-tothe-residents-about-this-tax-assessment\/","title":{"rendered":"So Did The Fire Chief Lie To The <br>Residents About This Tax Assessment?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31640\" title=\"WHO IS RIGHT-page-001\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/WHO-IS-RIGHT-page-001-e1404509867211.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"575\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">So what is it 50% plus one or<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">91.08% tax increase?????<\/h2>\n<p>Chief Wayne said, \u201cYes, I did state that 50% plus 1 of the properties assessed would see an increase over what they currently pay now in ad valorem taxes. However, that was a simple acknowledgement that we are well aware that the majority of properties (50% plus 1) will indeed see an increase if the Fire Fee Assessment passes in November\u2026nothing more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Honorable Kenneth Wilkinson at Lee County Property Appraiser\u2019s Office did 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<h4><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\">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,<\/span> <\/span>that\u2019s a\u00a0<\/strong><strong>91.08%<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><strong style=\"font-size: 1.17em;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">increase<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><strong style=\"font-size: 1.17em;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">and\u00a0\u00a0not the 50% plus 1 as Chief Wayne said.<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><!--more-->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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So what is it 50% plus one or 91.08% tax increase????? Chief Wayne said, \u201cYes, I did state that 50% plus 1 of the properties assessed would see an increase&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"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\/31639"}],"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=31639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}