{"id":43274,"date":"2019-06-04T19:49:09","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T23:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=43274"},"modified":"2019-06-04T19:49:24","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T23:49:24","slug":"lehigh-acres-voters-send-a-clear-and-strong-message-to-the-fire-board-no-new-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2019\/06\/lehigh-acres-voters-send-a-clear-and-strong-message-to-the-fire-board-no-new-taxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Lehigh Acres Voters send a clear and strong message to the Fire Board: NO NEW TAXES"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/I-voted.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43275\" width=\"230\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/I-voted.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/I-voted-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/I-voted-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/I-voted-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/I-voted-50x50.jpeg 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Lehigh Acres Fire District Special Referendum Election lost\nby 372 votes with voter turnout 3417 or 6.68% of the 51,117 registered votes in\nthe Lehigh Acres Fire district.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fire Commissioners spent nearly $200,000 of taxpayer money for this election: $100,000 for the Lee County Elections office plus an addition $100,000 in legal fees for lawyers and consultants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We tried to reach Fire Chief Robert Dilallo for a comment.\nAnd the phone just rang. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Special fire board meeting June 12 6 pm at Station 104 3102\n16th St SW Lehigh Acres,&nbsp;FL&nbsp;33976<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>THE PURPOSES OF THE SPECIAL MEETINGS ARE TO DISCUSS AND\nPOSSIBLY TAKE ACTION ON FINANCIAL AND CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT MATTERS AND TO\nDISCUSS AND POSSIBLY TAKE ACTION ON ANY AND ALL OTHER ITEMS THAT COME BEFORE\nTHE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lehigh Acres Fire District Special Referendum Election lost by 372 votes with voter turnout 3417 or 6.68% of the 51,117 registered votes in the Lehigh Acres Fire district. Fire Commissioners&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":43275,"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\/43274"}],"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=43274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}