{"id":43555,"date":"2019-06-25T21:38:04","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T01:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=43555"},"modified":"2019-06-25T21:38:13","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T01:38:13","slug":"lehigh-acres-fire-control-rescue-district-in-violation-of-florida-statutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2019\/06\/lehigh-acres-fire-control-rescue-district-in-violation-of-florida-statutes\/","title":{"rendered":"Lehigh Acres Fire Control &#038; Rescue District in violation of Florida Statutes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"189\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/logo-LAFD.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42716\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>There was a Lehigh Acres Fire Commission meeting on June 25, 2019 and now the department is in violation of FS 120.525 (2) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>120.525\u2003Meetings, hearings, and workshops.\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(2)\u2003<strong><em>An agenda shall be prepared by the agency in time\nto ensure that a copy of the agenda may be received at least 7 days before the\nevent by any person in the state who requests a copy and who pays the\nreasonable cost of the copy. The agenda, along with any meeting materials\navailable in electronic form excluding confidential and exempt information,\nshall be published on the agency\u2019s website.<\/em><\/strong> The agenda shall contain\nthe items to be considered in order of presentation. After the agenda has been\nmade available, a change shall be made only for good cause, as determined by\nthe person designated to preside, and stated in the record. Notification of\nsuch change shall be at the earliest practicable time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At 10 am 6\/25\/2019 the Lehigh Acres Gazette was looking for the agenda and meeting material for the evenings meeting it was not on the Lehigh Acres Fire Control &amp; Rescue District website as per 120.525(2). So, we emailed Fire Chief Robert Dilallo at 10:17 am and no answer. By 2:20 pm we called the department spoke to Anita Kummer, she emailed the agenda and meeting material to us. And someone by 4 pm posted the commissioners packet which includes the agenda on the website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the agenda and meeting material should have been posted on June 18, 2019 on their website. This is a form if mismanagement \u2026 Are the Commissioners or the Fire Chief mismanaging other things? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Florida Statute 120.525 is part of the Administrative Procedure Act in Florida and .525 Meetings, hearings, and workshops makes sure that citizens know what is going in the departments public meetings, hearings, and workshops. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a Lehigh Acres Fire Commission meeting on June 25, 2019 and now the department is in violation of FS 120.525 (2) 120.525\u2003Meetings, hearings, and workshops.\u2014 (2)\u2003An agenda shall&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":42716,"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\/43555"}],"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=43555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}