{"id":58065,"date":"2023-06-05T21:17:25","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T01:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=58065"},"modified":"2023-06-05T21:17:29","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T01:17:29","slug":"lee-county-manager-roger-desjarlais-announces-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2023\/06\/lee-county-manager-roger-desjarlais-announces-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee County Manager Roger Desjarlais announces retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lee County Manager Roger J. Desjarlais has announced his retirement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Roger-Desjarlais-photo-1024x576-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-58067\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Roger-Desjarlais-photo-1024x576-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Roger-Desjarlais-photo-1024x576-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Roger-Desjarlais-photo-1024x576-1-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Desjarlais\u2019s career involved overseeing a $2,000,000,000 budget and more than 2,600 employees. He remarked in his retirement letter, dated June 1, on how resilient the Lee County population is in dealing with the difficulties of the previous decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTogether, we have managed and cared for this community through COVID, Hurricane Irma, Hurricane Ian, flooding from record rainfall and a host of other events,\u201d Desjarlais wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Desjarlais spent his decade-long career assisting county commissioners in lowering the Lee County tax rate four times. Desjarlais also helps with planning and building roads and infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Desjarlais\u2019 retirement date is July 31. The retirement letter can be viewed below.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lee County Manager Roger J. Desjarlais has announced his retirement. Desjarlais\u2019s career involved overseeing a $2,000,000,000 budget and more than 2,600 employees. He remarked in his retirement letter, dated June&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":58067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[2364],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58065"}],"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=58065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58068,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58065\/revisions\/58068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}