{"id":39784,"date":"2016-04-24T14:36:46","date_gmt":"2016-04-24T18:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=39784"},"modified":"2016-04-24T15:41:06","modified_gmt":"2016-04-24T19:41:06","slug":"more-wasted-tax-dollars-it-the-lehigh-acres-fire-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2016\/04\/more-wasted-tax-dollars-it-the-lehigh-acres-fire-district\/","title":{"rendered":"More Wasted Tax Dollars At The Lehigh Acres Fire District"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Editorial \u2013 Lehigh Acres Gazette Editorial Staff<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-39785\" title=\"IMG_20160420_130407\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_20160420_130407-300x205.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_20160420_130407-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_20160420_130407-1024x700.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Fire Dept pays $2000 a month of your tax dollars for lawn maintenance of all five stations, but they own five John Deere riding lawn moving. That cost the Fire District nearly $ 9000 over 9 year period to purchase, but now the Chief Wayne wants surplus the equipment and dispose of it.<\/p>\n<p>Why is the tax payers paying $24,000 for lawn moving when it is less expense to maintain for high quality riding lawn movers? The employees of the district should take proud in working for the fire district doing simple maintenance &#8211; lawn care. They use too.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Wayne doing the same thing with three 2005 ice machines with bins, \u201cso called\u201d these ice machines and bins cannot use for drinking purpose. So they are going to surplus this equipment also and dispose of it.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it time us as a community stand up surplus and dispose a fire chief. By the way, Wayne is leaving the department anyway in July of 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editorial \u2013 Lehigh Acres Gazette Editorial Staff Fire Dept pays $2000 a month of your tax dollars for lawn maintenance of all five stations, but they own five John Deere&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":39785,"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\/39784"}],"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=39784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}