FGUA and Lee County

It has been a sad week for Lehigh Acres and all of the unincorporated areas of Lee County – On Friday 12/16/05 in Golden Gate -- Florida Governmental Utility Authority (FGUA) who owns the water and wastewater rights in Lehigh Acres started down a path of no return and started to open Pandora’s box -- The FGUA board minus the Lee County voting member Mr. Jim Lavender and/or (alt) Mr. Rick Diaz voted on FGUA Resolution 2005-36 which states –“the FGUA intends to use the uniform method for collecting non-ad valorem special assessments for the cost of providing capital improvements and maintenance services including but not limited to water and wastewater facilities to property within the unincorporated area of the Lee County, including but not limited to Lehigh Acres” commencing in November 2006. Mr. Jim Lavender and/or (alt) Mr. Rick Diaz could not be at Friday’s meeting do to personal reasons and the FGUA board would not consider mine or anyone’s else’s objections to the presumed use of their so called powers under Florida Statue.

This now means the FGUA has the power to serve populations within or outside of it service area of Lehigh Acres --- so if you live in Alva, Buckingham, North Fort Myers, Pine Island, Boca Grande, Gateway and Estero -- Watch Out -- here they come --- Since the FGUA is not subject to Public Service Commission by Florida Statue 163.01 7(g)1, the only option is for everyone in the unincorporated areas of the Lee County to call or email your County Commissioner –

Commissioner BOB JANES DISTRICT No. 1 335-2224 email dist1@leegov.com
Commissioner DOUGLAS ST. CERNY DISTRICT No. 2 335-2227 email dist2@leegov.com
Commissioner RAY JUDAH DISTRICT No. 3 (239) 335-2223 email dist3@leegov.com
Commissioner TAMMY HALL DISTRICT No. 4 335-2226 email dist4@leegov.com
Commissioner JOHN ALBION DISTRICT No. 5 335-2225 email dist5@leegov.com

This presumed power by the Florida Governmental Utility Authority (FGUA) has under Florida Statues needs to be fixed by our local Legislators in Tallahassee and I personally challenge our local Legislators in Tallahassee and the County government to fix this issue before it goes too far and Pandora’s box can not be closed.

Robert Anderson
President
Lehigh Acres Watchdog, Inc
Email - watchdog@lehighacreswatchdog.com
Phone - 239-369-6223
P.O. Box 1778 Lehigh Acres Fl 33970