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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nLee County Commissioner Frank Mann swore in three elected\nboard members: Cydyl Ayala, Donato Colucci, and Vanessa Ouimette.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The board also held an election to reestablish the various\nseats on its board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Executive Board of the Community Council removed Richard\nAnglickis from the Council due to missing to many meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The council also announced its guest speakers for the months\nof January and February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Our speaker for next month is Lance Whistler from\nVoters Registration. He will speak more in regards to the State of Florida\npassing legislation that gives the right to vote back to people with criminal\nrecords,” Edwards said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Another agenda item for January will be on the building of\n“tiny homes” and container homes in Lehigh Acres. Recently the issue\nhas caused quite a bit of debate in the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“We are currently looking for someone who knowledgeable\nabout the design and building of these types of homes to come in and speak on\nthe subject,” Edwards said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to Edwards, the debate over small homes brings up\nanother issue facing Lehigh Acres; a need to have control over local zoning so\nthat predetermined areas can be selected for these types of communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In February, the council will host guest speaker, Lee County\nManager Roger Desjarlais.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Desjarlais will talk about what the county is doing\nfor Lehigh Acres this year and how our money is being utilized,” Edwards\nsaid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Edwards wanted to thank a local commissioner for his work\nand dedication to the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“We want to thank Lee County Commissioner Frank Mann\nwho was instrumental in having Roger come to speak during our meeting. He is\nsomeone who overlooked for just how much he does for this community,”\nEdwards said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Council members have also begun to record the meetings of\nthe Lehigh Acres Municipal District and Lehigh Acres Fire Control and Rescue\nDistrict in an attempt to better inform the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“We think people should be able to stay on top of\nwhat’s happening in our community, and many of them are not able to make it to\nthese meetings,” Edwards said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During the evening Vice-president Tyler Woodby made a few\nannouncements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“The council now offers a live-streaming of our\nmeetings. We are also in the process of coordinating a food truck rally at\nVeterans Park,” Woodby said. “We have quite a few things coming up.\nSo far, we scheduled a Blood mobile for Saturday, Jan. 11, inside Veterans Park\nnear the dog park, and are planning a candidate forum, a candidate debate, and\na candidate car wash. The dates and time are still to be determined.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Lehigh Acres Community Council’s meetings are open to\nthe public and are held on the first Monday of each month at 6 p.m. in the\nmeeting room at the LCSO East District substation, at 1301 Homestead Road N.\nFor more information on the council’s upcoming events visit www.facebook.com\/LehighAcresCommunityCouncil\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Lehigh Acres Community Council held its yearly elections, and brought on new council members. Lee County Commissioner Frank Mann swore in three elected board members: Cydyl Ayala, Donato Colucci,… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":35349,"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\/45524"}],"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=45524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}