{"id":1509,"date":"2012-12-10T15:41:16","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T15:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/middleislandcivic.com\/?p=1509"},"modified":"2012-12-10T15:41:16","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T15:41:16","slug":"fire-commissioner-budget-vote-tuesday-1211","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/s453969799.onlinehome.us\/mica\/?p=1509","title":{"rendered":"Fire Commissioner &#038; Budget Vote Tuesday, 12\/11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As covered in today&#8217;s Newsday&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Fire districts are independent  public taxing agencies, and their commissioners are responsible for  drafting district budgets, determining fire protection policies, and  buying equipment.\u00a0\u00a0The districts raise operating funds mostly  through\u00a0property taxes.\u00a0 Residents do not vote for budgets as they do in  school district elections; the fire district budget was adopted by the  board of commissioners last month.<\/p>\n<p>Middle Island fire district  adopted a $3.29 million budget, which is a 3.7% decrease from the  current budget.\u00a0 Anthony Rempel is running unopposed.\u00a0 [Mr. Rempel is  running for a term of five years, commencing on January 1, 2013 upon the  expiration of the term of Jeffrey Davis, who resigned in 2012.]<\/p>\n<p>Voting is at the MIFD headquarters on Arnold Drive tomorrow, December 11th, from 3:00pm to 9:00pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As covered in today&#8217;s Newsday&#8230; Fire districts are independent public taxing agencies, and their commissioners are responsible for drafting district budgets, determining fire protection policies, and buying equipment.\u00a0\u00a0The districts raise operating funds mostly through\u00a0property taxes.\u00a0 Residents do not vote for budgets as they do in school district elections; the fire district budget was adopted by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/s453969799.onlinehome.us\/mica\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/s453969799.onlinehome.us\/mica\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/s453969799.onlinehome.us\/mica\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/s453969799.onlinehome.us\/mica\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/s453969799.onlinehome.us\/mica\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/s453969799.onlinehome.us\/mica\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/s453969799.onlinehome.us\/mica\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/s453969799.onlinehome.us\/mica\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/s453969799.onlinehome.us\/mica\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}