{"id":45021,"date":"2019-10-10T21:21:04","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T01:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=45021"},"modified":"2019-10-10T21:21:20","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T01:21:20","slug":"lets-see-the-real-community-numbers-vs-the-fire-department-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2019\/10\/lets-see-the-real-community-numbers-vs-the-fire-department-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s see the real community numbers vs the fire department numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Social Security \u201cCOLA\u201d increases 2015 – 2019 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Social Security increases 2015-2019<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Consumer price 2009-2019 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lehigh Acres Fire tax or assessment from 2013 -2019 on an actual $50,000 house in Lehigh Acres<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fire tax or assessment from 2013 -2019 on an actual $50,000 house in Lehigh Acres <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

So if you were on Social Security in 2019 you get a 1.6% increase but Cost Living in the first half of 2019 is 1.7% and you will pay the fire fee assessment of $351.38 which went up 5.79% over the prior year. Do these numbers add up …… yes they do add up you’re broke……. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the Federal Government, 36.1% of Lehigh Acres residents are on a fixed income period. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lehigh Acres Fire Dept Employees have received two pay raises since 2015 nearly 10% (Oct 1, 2019, they received 5%) and the commissioners are looking to reopen wages contract for District 6 the rank-and-file of the department. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

52% of the Lehigh Acres firefighter do not live in the Lehigh Acres Fire District. If they live more then an hour away it is a violation of FEMA rules and the department may not be allowed to be reimbursed from an incident. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

52% of the firefighters do not pay the assessment fee, none of the five fire commissioners pay the assessment fee.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Who pays the assessment fee the 36.1% of Lehigh Acres residents are on a fixed income!!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Social Security \u201cCOLA\u201d increases 2015 – 2019 Consumer price 2009-2019 Lehigh Acres Fire tax or assessment from 2013 -2019 on an actual $50,000 house in Lehigh Acres So if you… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":45026,"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\/45021"}],"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=45021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}