{"id":44986,"date":"2019-10-08T14:43:09","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T18:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=44986"},"modified":"2019-10-08T19:39:02","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T23:39:02","slug":"when-is-enough-enough-another-3-raise-for-the-lehigh-acres-fire-dept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2019\/10\/when-is-enough-enough-another-3-raise-for-the-lehigh-acres-fire-dept\/","title":{"rendered":"When is enough, enough? Another 3% raise for the Lehigh Acres Fire Dept???"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Lehigh Acres Fire received a 5% pay raise as of Oct 1, 2019. But now Fire Commissioners Bennett has on the agenda item for the Special meeting on Oct 9, 2019: To discuss the process and intention to open Article 7 \u2013 Wages of The Southwest Florida Professional Firefighters Local 1826 District 6 Collective Bargaining Agreement and give the firefighters an extra 3% raise. <\/p>\n\n\n\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\/10\/Money-raise.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44987\" width=\"427\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Money-raise.jpg 600w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Money-raise-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\" \/><figcaption>TAXPAYER MONEY!!!!!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>They raised your taxes 5.79% as of Oct 1, the fire district has loans of 10 million dollars, gave the staff a 5% raise and the dept does not have the money to build station 6 or rebuild station 2. But a commissioner what&#8217;s to give the staff an additional 3% why??????<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"color:#f70b1e\" class=\"has-text-color\"><strong>Fire Dept Meeting is Oct 9, 2019, <\/strong><strong>LEHIGH ACRES MUNICIPAL SERVICES IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT, 601 EAST COUNTY LANE, LEHIGH ACRES, FLORIDA 33936 AT 6:00 PM<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"color:#2607f3;text-align:center\" class=\"has-text-color\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lehighfd.com\/sites\/default\/files\/fileattachments\/administration\/meeting\/packets\/7341\/2019-10-09_commission_packet.pdf\"><strong>Click to read the agenda <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lehigh Acres Fire received a 5% pay raise as of Oct 1, 2019. But now Fire Commissioners Bennett has on the agenda item for the Special meeting on Oct&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":44987,"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\/44986"}],"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=44986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}