{"id":40650,"date":"2016-07-27T11:37:53","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T15:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=40650"},"modified":"2016-07-27T11:37:53","modified_gmt":"2016-07-27T15:37:53","slug":"lehigh-acres-fire-board-mocks-ignores-local-seniors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2016\/07\/lehigh-acres-fire-board-mocks-ignores-local-seniors\/","title":{"rendered":"Lehigh Acres Fire Board Mocks &#038; Ignores Local Seniors"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_40651\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40651\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-40651 \" title=\"Commissioners\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Commissioners-300x164.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Commissioners-300x164.png 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Commissioners.png 822w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40651\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fire Commissioners<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Written by A Barrett, Lehigh Acres Gazette Staff Writer<\/p>\n<p>During the latest Lehigh Acres Fire Board meeting hold at Lehigh Acres Fire Control &amp; Rescue District Station 104. Board members seemingly mocked and ignored seniors who attended the meeting to voice their concerns about the rise in their rents at Presbyterian Homes due to the fire assessment tax.<\/p>\n<p>As the meeting began one resident Harold \u201cSkip\u201d Graves spoke up asking the board Chairperson Cathy Kruse to speak loader as many of the seniors attending the meeting could not hear them. Kruse replied \u201cI will try to speak louder\u201d and continued saying \u201cit is what it is\u201d speaking to the lack of the board\u2019s ability to use the microphones over the speaking within the building one can only assume.<\/p>\n<p>During the time the public was allowed to speak on the assessment tax matter, Commissioner Matt Smith was observed reading papers and rolling his eyes as seniors spoke. Commissioner David Adams was heard mumbling to himself \u201cGet over it\u201d &amp; \u201cSpeak English\u201d amongst other comments that where inaudible.<\/p>\n<p>As resident after resident spoke their concerns to the board, Chairperson Cathy Kruse did her best to show general concern at the plight of the residents, though many residents felt she did so in a condescending matter.<\/p>\n<p>After the residents spoke their peace and departed the meeting, the meeting continued its planned agenda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by A Barrett, Lehigh Acres Gazette Staff Writer During the latest Lehigh Acres Fire Board meeting hold at Lehigh Acres Fire Control &amp; Rescue District Station 104. Board members&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":40651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40650"}],"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=40650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}