{"id":126256,"date":"2023-12-29T18:55:14","date_gmt":"2023-12-29T23:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=126256"},"modified":"2023-12-29T18:55:14","modified_gmt":"2023-12-29T23:55:14","slug":"awarding-of-2024-hotel-tax-grants-northampton-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=126256","title":{"rendered":"Awarding of 2024 Hotel Tax Grants &#8211; Northampton County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>County Executive Lamont G. McClure and the Department of Community and Economic Development announced that County Council approved $674,015 for 62 Hotel Tax grants at their meeting on Thursday, December 7th.<\/p>\n<p>Hotel Tax Grants are funded through the County\u2019s tax on hotels and Airbnbs. Eligible projects must promote community development related to tourism and\/or enhance tourism within Northampton County and be completed within the 2024 Calendar Year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHotel Tax grants increase the numbers of visitors to our culturally rich and historic County,\u201d says Executive McClure. \u201cMunicipal festivals, our parks and trails system, art organizations, living history exhibitions, and concerts are instrumental to our communities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hotel Tax Grants are awarded through a competitive process. Applications are first screened by the Hotel Tax Review Committee, which forwards its recommendations to the County Executive. Grants are distributed at the discretion of County Council.<\/p>\n<p>Applicants must either be a federally registered non-profit entity 501(c)(3), 501(c)(4), or 501(c)(5), or a municipal entity located within Northampton County.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/hotel-tax.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-126257\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/hotel-tax.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"597\" height=\"2164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/hotel-tax.jpg 597w, https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/hotel-tax-83x300.jpg 83w, https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/hotel-tax-424x1536.jpg 424w, https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/hotel-tax-565x2048.jpg 565w, https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/hotel-tax-300x1087.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 597px) 100vw, 597px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Information provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nCounty of Northampton<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>County Executive Lamont G. McClure and the Department of Community and Economic Development announced that County Council approved $674,015 for 62 Hotel Tax grants at their meeting on Thursday, December &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=126256\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Awarding of 2024 Hotel Tax Grants &#8211; Northampton County<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122147,"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-126256","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\/2023\/09\/NC-Northampton.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126256"}],"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=126256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/122147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}