{"id":46115,"date":"2020-03-11T10:10:58","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T14:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=46115"},"modified":"2020-03-11T10:11:11","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T14:11:11","slug":"3-5-million-street-lighting-budget-from-lcec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2020\/03\/3-5-million-street-lighting-budget-from-lcec\/","title":{"rendered":"$3.5 million street lighting budget from LCEC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lehigh Acres will get another\n$3.5 million in street lights this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Screenshot-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-46116\" width=\"272\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Screenshot-1.png 376w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Screenshot-1-300x208.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 272px) 100vw, 272px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m\nreally excited to announce that we have lots of plans for additional street\nlights in Lehigh Acres,&#8221; Lee County Electric Co-operative spokesperson\nPatricia Lassiter told those attending the Lehigh Acres Community Council&#8217;s\nMarch 2 meeting. &#8220;I know they are really needed. We got a big budget this\nyear through the county for Lehigh. This year the budget will be $3.5 million\nfor all of Lehigh, so this is a huge increase from last year&#8217;s budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The\ncounty is the one that facilitates this with LCEC. We are still waiting on the\napplications. Once we start to receive those applications for service, we will\nstart to gear up internally.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According\nto Lassiter, both the engineering and construction side of LCEC is preparing\nfor the demand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We\nare planning to stagger the lights, at a rate of about 60 per week so we can\nget it completed within a one-year timeframe once we receive the\napplications,&#8221; she said. &#8220;The county has identified 2,400\nintersections in LCEC territory and 1,300 intersections in FPL&#8217;s territory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lehigh Acres will get another $3.5 million in street lights this year. &#8220;I&#8217;m really excited to announce that we have lots of plans for additional street lights in Lehigh Acres,&#8221;&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":46116,"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\/46115"}],"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=46115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}