{"id":263809,"date":"2026-05-08T18:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T18:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/263809\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T18:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T18:59:09","slug":"lee-county-school-board-to-vote-on-hiring-of-a-staff-attorney-tuesday-wgcu-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/263809\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee County school board to vote on hiring of a staff attorney Tuesday | WGCU News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Lee County School Board will vote on a contract for a Chief Staff Attorney at its meeting Tuesday evening. This is a new position proposed by the superintendent and approved by the board earlier this year. Previously, one attorney served both the board and the school district.<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"Kevin Pendley\"  width=\"880\" height=\"1171\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778266749_524_.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Up for hire is Kevin William Pendley, who is a Florida Bar Board Certified Specialist in Education Law. He will serve a two-year term beginning May 13, 2026, and ending June 30, 2028. The contract is for $214,500,\u00a0salary and benefits for a total cost of $339,601.26.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Lee County School Board will vote on a contract for a Chief Staff Attorney at its meeting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-263809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}