{"id":41996,"date":"2016-12-05T09:00:17","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T14:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=41996"},"modified":"2016-12-02T01:42:41","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T06:42:41","slug":"editorial-did-the-fire-commissioner-candidates-made-promises-or-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2016\/12\/editorial-did-the-fire-commissioner-candidates-made-promises-or-lies\/","title":{"rendered":"Editorial \u2013 Did the Fire Commissioner Candidates Made Promises or Lies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Editorial Written by Jemzee Barrett Editor Lehigh Acres Gazette<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-41997\" title=\"editorial\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/editorial-300x131.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"131\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/editorial-300x131.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/editorial.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>We have listened to video of the Fire Commissioner candidates speaking at the community candidate\u2019s forum hosted by the Lehigh Acres Community Council on Oct 13, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>One thing was quite noticeable, all the fire commissioner candidates stated no new stations would be built \u2026\u2026\u2026.. turn the page to the first meeting after the election \u2026\u2026. \u00a0Commissioner Linda Carter wants to tear down stations 101, 102 and 103 and build new ones. (YES, she said it.)<\/p>\n<p>Interim Fire Chief Robert DiLallo wants to build a legacy for himself on the taxpayer\u2019s dime and build a Fire Complex on Homestead Rd, which would include a fire station, administration offices, maintenance department and a fire training tower. (MILLIONS and MILLIONS of \u00a0today\u2019s tax payer dollars over 5 to 10 years and not Impact Fee dollars like it should be.)<\/p>\n<p>Can Lehigh Acres afford this \u2026\u2026. The answer is \u201cNO\u201d \u2026\u2026. <strong>REMEMBER THIS WARING<\/strong> they the Fire Commissioners can raise your Fire Fee Assessment <strong>without<\/strong> the voters\u2019 approval \u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>PLEASE come to the Jan 17, 2017 5 pm meeting at Station 104 on Sunshine Blvd and speak your mind for or against \u2026\u2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editorial Written by Jemzee Barrett Editor Lehigh Acres Gazette We have listened to video of the Fire Commissioner candidates speaking at the community candidate\u2019s forum hosted by the Lehigh Acres&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":41997,"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\/41996"}],"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=41996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}