{"id":39562,"date":"2016-04-02T13:56:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-02T17:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=39562"},"modified":"2016-04-02T13:56:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-02T17:56:00","slug":"is-fire-commissioner-kruse-adding-fuel-to-the-major-lawsuit-thats-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2016\/04\/is-fire-commissioner-kruse-adding-fuel-to-the-major-lawsuit-thats-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Fire Commissioner Kruse Adding Fuel To The Major Lawsuit That\u2019s Coming?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_31879\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31879\" style=\"width: 215px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-31879\" title=\"Cathy Kruse\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Cathy-Kruse-215x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Cathy-Kruse-215x300.jpg 215w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Cathy-Kruse.jpg 254w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31879\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lehigh Acres Fire <br \/>Commissioner Cathy Kruse<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The board received a letter from attorney Joseph A. DiVito, of DiVito, Higham &amp; Vasti out of St. Petersburg, who represents Presbyterian Homes. Management for Presbyterian Homes believes that it should be exempt from the assessment fees.<\/p>\n<p>But Fire Commissioner Chairman Cathy Kruse may have added fuel to the fire.<\/p>\n<p>At the request of the Chairman Kruse, the topic was tabled until further information is received.<\/p>\n<p>But it does not appear that the board is going to change its mind and make an exemption for the few hundred housing units, mostly rented by low income senior citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Kruse was quoted to say at March 22, 2016 meeting the following:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey (meaning residents at Presbyterian Homes) only pay 10 or 20 dollars\u2019 month for rent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTax Assessment will not increase their rents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kruse requests to see Presbyterian Homes all of financial books including their reserve accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Has Kruse actually last her mind or has she started to fuel the fire of long battle that will cost the taxpayers hundreds of thousands of money to defend.<\/p>\n<p>DiVito wrote in his letter to the fire district, &#8220;In other words during the next 60 days, we seek a reasonable cooperative effort to address the inequalities established under this resolution&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If your client (the fire district) chooses to remain steadfast in its discrimination, then my clients (Presbyterian Homes) will have no alternative but to bring the lawsuit and seek justice through the court system,&#8221; DiVito wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The board received a letter from attorney Joseph A. DiVito, of DiVito, Higham &amp; Vasti out of St. Petersburg, who represents Presbyterian Homes. Management for Presbyterian Homes believes that it&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":31879,"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\/39562"}],"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=39562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}