{"id":83213,"date":"2026-10-04T20:18:31","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T00:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=83213"},"modified":"2026-10-04T20:18:36","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T00:18:36","slug":"pt12-ft-myers-mayor-andersons-name-removed-from-foundation-for-lee-county-public-schools-board-of-directors-listing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2026\/10\/04\/pt12-ft-myers-mayor-andersons-name-removed-from-foundation-for-lee-county-public-schools-board-of-directors-listing\/","title":{"rendered":"Pt12: Ft. Myers Mayor Anderson\u2019s name removed from Foundation for Lee County Public Schools\u2019 board of directors listing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"\"<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

By Bob Norman<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just last week, Fort Myers Mayor Kevin Anderson\u2019s name was listed first on the Foundation for Lee County Public Schools website\u2019s Board of Directors page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, his name is no longer there, as you can see here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Lighthouse hasn\u2019t received any official word on the reason for the omission. Still, if Anderson has left the Foundation board, where he also served as a mentor for at-risk children, it will mark the fourth such board departure since allegations of sexual misconduct were first reported here on Sept. 9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Sept. 17, he resigned from the Florida Gulf Coast University Alumni Association board of directors; a day later he departed the Valerie\u2019s House board, and last week he resigned from the United Way of Lee, Hendry, and Glades Counties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anderson has vowed to remain on the city council. The next council meeting is tomorrow (Monday), beginning at 4:30 p.m. Numerous residents have informed the Lighthouse that they will attend to call for his resignation and demand an independent investigation into the allegations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Bob Norman Just last week, Fort Myers Mayor Kevin Anderson\u2019s name was listed first on the Foundation for Lee County Public Schools website\u2019s Board of Directors page. Today, his… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvbGFrZWxhbmRnYXpldHRlLmluZm9cL25ld3NcL3dwLWNvbnRlbnRcL3VwbG9hZHNcLzIwMjZcLzEwXC91bm5hbWVkLTEtMS0xMDI0eDMyNy53ZWJwIiwidHh0IjoiUHQxMjogRnQuIE15ZXJzIE1heW9yIEFuZGVyc29uXHUyMDE5cyBuYW1lIHJlbW92ZWQgZnJvbSBGb3VuZGF0aW9uIGZvciBMZWUgQ291bnR5IFB1YmxpYyBTY2hvb2xzXHUyMDE5IGJvYXJkIG9mIGRpcmVjdG9ycyBsaXN0aW5nIiwidGVtcGxhdGUiOiJkb2lzIiwiZm9udCI6IiIsImJsb2dfaWQiOjE2MzA0MDY2MX0.k329wkLfSUL1iIvDhMjvjdtk2AK-1Xv33ofIJEpNcF8MQ"},"version":2,"media_source":"sig","attached_media":[{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/jetpack.com\/redirect\/?source=sigenerate&query=t%3DeyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvbGFrZWxhbmRnYXpldHRlLmluZm9cL25ld3NcL3dwLWNvbnRlbnRcL3VwbG9hZHNcLzIwMjZcLzEwXC91bm5hbWVkLTEtMS0xMDI0eDMyNy53ZWJwIiwidHh0IjoiUHQxMjogRnQuIE15ZXJzIE1heW9yIEFuZGVyc29uXHUyMDE5cyBuYW1lIHJlbW92ZWQgZnJvbSBGb3VuZGF0aW9uIGZvciBMZWUgQ291bnR5IFB1YmxpYyBTY2hvb2xzXHUyMDE5IGJvYXJkIG9mIGRpcmVjdG9ycyBsaXN0aW5nIiwidGVtcGxhdGUiOiJkb2lzIiwiZm9udCI6IiIsImJsb2dfaWQiOjE2MzA0MDY2MX0.k329wkLfSUL1iIvDhMjvjdtk2AK-1Xv33ofIJEpNcF8MQ","type":"image\/jpeg"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[17391,17055,15291,16949,16948,17759,17761,17760],"class_list":["post-83213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-bob-norman","tag-florida-gulf-coast-university","tag-florida-politics","tag-fort-myers","tag-kevin-anderson","tag-lee-county-public-schools","tag-united-way-of-lee-county","tag-valeries-house"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83217,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83213\/revisions\/83217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}