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Fountain Hill Borough Council voted to adopt a 2020 borough budget which includes a modest property tax increase at their Dec. 18 meeting, which was council’s last for the year.
A new fire truck is required in order to help maintain public safety, Dewey Fire Company officials maintained Monday, but several Hellertown Borough Council members were skeptical of their request to purchase one that comes with a seven-figure price tag.
A special Fountain Hill Borough Council meeting held Tuesday to discuss various options for providing police coverage to the borough drew a large crowd and the accusation by the head of the borough’s police officer association that at least some council members are “anti-police.”
The Fountain Hill Police Department said Thursday that officers arrested four teenage boys, ages 16 throught 17, after they were stopped in a vehicle that had been stolen earlier from a borough resident. The news came as the borough is in the throes of an at-times contentious conversation about the force’s future, as a result of budget woes.
Fountain Hill Borough Council will consider options for controlling cost of the borough’s police budget at their next meeting Sept. 3. In this opinion editorial, council president Leo Atkinson explains why.
Family-owned Limon Authentic Turkish Kebap House, which opened at 1111 Main Street in May 2015, was named Pennsylvania’s best budget restaurant by Buzzfeed on Aug. 13 in the article, “Here’s the Best Budget Restaurant in Every State, According to Yelp.”
The Southern Lehigh School Board met Monday to adopt a district budget that includes a modest tax increase for the 2019-2020 school year. School officials also reflected on the high school’s graduation ceremony, which was held Friday.
If you’re a property owner in the Saucon Valley School District, you most likely won’t have a higher tax bill when the district’s 2019-2020 real estate tax bills go out this summer.
A vote on a $47,401,439 proposed Saucon Valley School District budget for 2019-2020 was tabled at the school board’s meeting Tuesday, after board members said they wanted more information before voting on its adoption.
If you’re a property owner in Lower Saucon Township, you can expect to pay more in fire tax next year if the 2019 preliminary budget approved by township council Wednesday is adopted next month.
