{"id":105003,"date":"2021-01-26T11:43:15","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T16:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=105003"},"modified":"2021-02-17T15:41:17","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T20:41:17","slug":"northampton-county-accepting-applications-for-ems-grants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=105003","title":{"rendered":"Northampton County Accepting Applications for EMS Grants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>Lamont McClure and the Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED) announce that the County of Northampton will begin accepting applications for 2021 Emergency Medical Services (EMS) grants on January 29<sup>th<\/sup>.\u00a0EMS grants are available to Northampton County volunteer fire departments and non-profit emergency medical service organizations and can be used for capital improvements, vehicle purchase, equipment purchase and training.\u00a0Eligible organizations can apply for $10,000 per application or project.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cIn these most trying of times, we are doing everything we can on the County level to be as supportive of our EMS community as possible,\u201d says Lamont McClure.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>The application process opens on Friday, January 29<sup>th<\/sup>, and closes on Friday, February 26<sup>th<\/sup>.\u00a0\u00a0Approvals are scheduled to be announced in March 2021.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>Details and applications can be found on the Department of Community and Economic Development\u2019s (DCED) webpage:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.northamptoncounty.org\/CMTYECDV\/Pages\/Apply-for-Funding.aspx\">https:\/\/www.northamptoncounty.<wbr \/>org\/CMTYECDV\/Pages\/Apply-for-<wbr \/>Funding.aspx<\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>The funding for EMS grants comes from the Northampton County\u2019s share of the revenue from table games under the Pennsylvania Race Horse Development and Gaming Act, 4 PaC.S.A. \u00a7\u00a7 1102, et seq. Grants are awarded via a competitive process through a committee consisting of the DCED staff.<\/div>\n<p>Information provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nBecky Bartlett<br \/>\nDeputy Director of Administration<br \/>\nNorthampton County Government Center<br \/>\n669 Washington Street<br \/>\nEaston, PA 18042<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.northamptoncounty.org\/\">https:\/\/www.northamptoncounty.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Lamont McClure and the Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED) announce that the County of Northampton will begin accepting applications for 2021 Emergency Medical Services (EMS) grants on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=105003\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Northampton County Accepting Applications for EMS Grants<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90635,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69,5738,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-northampton-county","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/NC.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105003"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/90635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}