{"id":113072,"date":"2022-07-25T22:22:42","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T02:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=113072"},"modified":"2022-07-25T22:22:42","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T02:22:42","slug":"northampton-county-accepting-applications-for-public-safety-grants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=113072","title":{"rendered":"Northampton County &#8211; Accepting applications for public safety grants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nLamont McClure and the Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED) announce that the County of Northampton will accept applications for 2022 Public Safety Grants beginning on August 1st through September 9, 2022. <\/p>\n<p>Public Safety Grants are available to Northampton County\u2019s municipal and volunteer Police, Fire and Emergency Medical Service (EMS) organizations. The grants can be used for capital improvements, vehicle purchase, equipment purchase and training. Eligible organizations can apply for up to $20,000 per application or project.<\/p>\n<p>Approvals are scheduled to be announced in November 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFire departments and EMS organizations are critical to protecting the lives and the property of Northampton County residents,\u201d says Lamont McClure. \u201cWe want to be as supportive of our emergency responders as possible especially during these trying times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Details and applications can be found on the Department of Community and Economic Development\u2019s (DCED) webpage:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.northamptoncounty.org\/CMTYECDV\/Pages\/Apply-for-Funding.aspx\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.northamptoncounty.org\/CMTYECDV\/Pages\/Apply-for-Funding.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Grants are awarded via a competitive process through a committee consisting of DCED staff.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nInformation 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 accept applications for 2022 Public Safety Grants beginning on August 1st &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=113072\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Northampton County &#8211; Accepting applications for public safety grants<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113014,"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-113072","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\/2022\/07\/Northampton-county-.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113072"}],"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=113072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/113014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}