{"id":31966,"date":"2014-07-20T18:08:26","date_gmt":"2014-07-20T22:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=31966"},"modified":"2014-07-20T18:08:53","modified_gmt":"2014-07-20T22:08:53","slug":"9-truths-about-the-tax-assessment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2014\/07\/9-truths-about-the-tax-assessment\/","title":{"rendered":"9 Truths About The
Fire Tax Assessment \u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"1. Chief Wayne said, \u201cI\u2019m planning on laying off 46 firefighters temporary even if the tax assessment passes.\u201d<\/p>\n

2. Insurance ISO rating \/ PPC rating will not go up until ISO reps come to Lehigh Acres and re-rate the department. When are they coming who knows?<\/p>\n

3. Lee County Property Appraiser office states that 91.08% of all residential homes will a tax increase over 2013 tax rates if the assessment is passed.<\/p>\n

4. Lehigh Acres will not lose Ambulance Transport Service according to Scott Tuttle,\u00a0Deputy Director Public Safety and EMS Chief for Lee County EMS<\/p>\n

5. According to the departments own independent auditor Tuscan and Company Lehigh Acres Fire is in debt for 2.5 million dollars.<\/p>\n

6. Churches and non-profits (like Lehigh Community Services) in Lehigh Acres are NOT exempt from this tax assessment and will have to pay up if the assessment is passed.<\/p>\n

7. Presbyterian Homes (aka Sunshine Villas) is NOT exempt from this tax assessment and will have to pay up if the assessment is passed.<\/p>\n

8. Frank Lohlein President of Citizens Against Increased Taxes (aka C.A.I.T.) said,\u201dOur voting block of 6000 people in Lehigh Acres will be voting no on the fire assessment.\u201d<\/p>\n

9. The issue of these items is so simple: The fire boards lack of or no decision making and the leadership of the union has caused the issues to escalate again. They all know 5 years ago about the housing bubble and the foreclosure issues but yet choose not to listen to business leaders in the community multiple times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1. Chief Wayne said, \u201cI\u2019m planning on laying off 46 firefighters temporary even if the tax assessment passes.\u201d 2. Insurance ISO rating \/ PPC rating will not go up until… <\/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\/31966"}],"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=31966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}