{"id":47507,"date":"2021-02-16T15:46:46","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T20:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=47507"},"modified":"2021-02-16T16:28:22","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T21:28:22","slug":"fire-board-spends-920715-00-without-going-out-to-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2021\/02\/fire-board-spends-920715-00-without-going-out-to-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire Board spends $920,715.00 without going out to bid."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Documents show that the Lehigh Acres Fire Department Board of Fire Commissioners spent nearly one million dollars in prepping the lot and moving the mobile home from station 101 to the new lot for station 106.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"421\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/one-million-dollar-bill-USA.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-47508\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/one-million-dollar-bill-USA.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/one-million-dollar-bill-USA-300x126.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/one-million-dollar-bill-USA-768x323.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Board of Fire Commissioners chose not to go to bid and added $ 920,715.00 to the building contract with Wright Construction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wright Construction paid a political action committee $ 10,000 in 2018 to convince the citizens to change the fire assessment.<\/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\/2021\/02\/2018_0428pacs.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-47509\" width=\"251\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2018_0428pacs.jpg 640w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2018_0428pacs-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 251px) 100vw, 251px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The bid of $ 920,715.00 is so high price why didn\u2019t the Board of Fire Commissioners order a second or third bid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whose pocket is the Board of Fire Commissioners lining now?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why can\u2019t Fire Commissioners be responsible with the tax payer\u2019s money?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Documents show that the Lehigh Acres Fire Department Board of Fire Commissioners spent nearly one million dollars in prepping the lot and moving the mobile home from station 101 to&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":47510,"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\/47507"}],"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=47507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}