{"id":373089,"date":"2026-08-16T16:06:50","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T16:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/373089\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T16:06:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T16:06:50","slug":"fort-myers-beach-review-focuses-on-4-grants-gb-daily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/373089\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Myers Beach review focuses on 4 grants | GB Daily"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Town of Fort Myers Beach.jpeg\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1763\" height=\"1175\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/68c049711d758.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"133\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Fort Myers Beach Town Hall on Estero Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p>                                    Fort Myers Beach government<\/p>\n<p>Fort Myers Beach\u2019s independent investigation into its handling of public funds involves four grants and is expected to take about a month. The concerns surfaced during a routine review of grants, contracts and expenditures as part of the town\u2019s budget process. Community Development Director Frankie Kropacek and Community Services Director Jeff Hauge remain on paid administrative leave while a third-party firm conducts the investigation. The town has not identified the grants, the amount of money involved or the specific concerns under review. Town Manager Will McKannay plans to present the findings and answer residents\u2019 questions at a public town hall after the investigation is completed, <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"Hyperlink SCXW127047641 BCX0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.winknews.com\/wink_investigations\/fort-myers-beach-independent-investigation-involves-four-grants-as-two-employees-remain-on-paid-leave\/article_9b3f2e57-fef7-4f14-997d-ef9eacece758.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WINK News reports.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fort Myers Beach Town Hall on Estero Boulevard. Fort Myers Beach government Fort Myers Beach\u2019s independent investigation into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,3335],"class_list":["post-373089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-gb-daily"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373089","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=373089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}