{"id":111276,"date":"2022-03-04T18:40:22","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T23:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=111276"},"modified":"2022-03-04T18:40:22","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T23:40:22","slug":"northampton-county-executives-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=111276","title":{"rendered":"Northampton County Executive&#8217;s Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following announcements were included in Lamont McClure\u2019s Executive Report to County Council at their March 3<sup>rd<\/sup>\u00a0meeting.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The books from last year closed with a fund balance of $61 million. With the reduced revenue from the 8.5% cut in 2022 Real Estate taxes, the County has $54 million on hand\u2014the same balance the last time the books closed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Lamont McClure delivered a \u201cCertificate of Appreciation\u201d to Betsy Daly, RN. Nurse Daly recently vaccinated the 1,000<sup>th<\/sup>patient at the COVID-19 drive-through testing center at Coordinated Health in Bethlehem Township. The site is a partnership between LVHN and Northampton County and began offering vaccines in June 2020.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In response to the unprovoked war of aggression in Ukraine, Mr. McClure has ordered the County to liquidate any holdings linked to Russia in the County\u2019s Pension Fund and Other Post Employment Benefits (OPEB) as soon as the Russian markets are unfrozen. Approximately 0.7% of holdings in the Pension Fund are linked to Russia.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Currently there are no cases of COVID-19 at Northampton County Prison and no cases among residents at Gracedale Nursing Home; one Gracedale employee is currently in quarantine.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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>The following announcements were included in Lamont McClure\u2019s Executive Report to County Council at their March 3rd\u00a0meeting. The books from last year closed with a fund balance of $61 million. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=111276\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Northampton County Executive&#8217;s Report<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106363,"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":[69,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/NC.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111276"}],"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=111276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/106363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}