OCOEE, Fla. \u2014 An increase to the city of Ocoee’s fire assessment fees is coming.<\/p>\n
During the Aug. 18 meeting, city leaders voted to increase the annual fire assessment fee to a flat rate of $383 for a single-family home for Fiscal Year 2027.<\/p>\n
The city of Ocoee says the adjustments to the fire assessment rate are a result of rising costs and to keep wages competitive.<\/p>\n
Commissioners also weighed the possible loss of funds if voters approve the property tax amendment on the November ballot.<\/p>\n
The new rate was decided upon based on the projection of costs for the span of five years.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is no other option,\u201d said City Manager Craig Shadrix. \u201cFor this extra couple hundred dollars a year, we can keep everything in place that you currently have.\u201d<\/p>\n
The funds will go towards personnel, operations, equipment, and salary.<\/p>\n
Fanny Le Morvan was one of over a dozen residents who voiced their concerns regarding the fee increase during a commission meeting earlier this month. Her bill is now increasing by over $100.<\/p>\n
\u201cEverything right now is rising. The cost of living in the last year has been crazy. It does affect me because that’s another thing that I have to pay more for,\u201d Le Morvan said. \u201cI’ve been part of Ocoee since 2007, and I think we have a duty to come and voice our opinions. Unfortunately, I was disappointed by the decision that was made.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OCOEE, Fla. \u2014 An increase to the city of Ocoee’s fire assessment fees is coming. During the Aug.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[8905,115,1335,139,141,140,835],"class_list":["post-383055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-camille-acevedo","tag-news","tag-orange-county","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383055","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=383055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}