{"id":59162,"date":"2018-01-03T20:03:27","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T01:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=59162"},"modified":"2018-01-03T20:03:27","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T01:03:27","slug":"whitehall-mayor-ed-hozza-chosen-new-director-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=59162","title":{"rendered":"Whitehall Mayor Ed Hozza Chosen As New Director of Administration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\"><strong>(Allentown, PA)<\/strong> County Executive Philips Armstrong has selected Whitehall Township Mayor Edward Hozza Jr. to be his new Director of Administration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u201cMayor Hozza will bring a proven track record of versatile and strategic leadership, and a strong command of the issues and concerns of municipalities and townships throughout Lehigh County,\u201d said Armstrong.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Whitehall Township is one of the Lehigh Valley\u2019s larger communities consisting of 28,500 residents.\u00a0 The mayor is responsible for overseeing all government functions of the township including, public safety, public works, parks and recreation, economic development and administration. The township employs 116 full time staff, 125 volunteer fire fighters and over 100 seasonal part time staff.\u00a0 The parks and recreation department maintains over 300 acres of open space, three outdoor swimming pools and three trail networks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Mayor Hozza was first elected Whitehall Township Executive in 2007, before encouraging the township to create a full-time mayor position in order to enhance Whitehall\u2019s standing.\u00a0 He has occupied the Mayor\u2019s office since 2008.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Hozza is a member of the Lehigh Valley Planning Commission, and its Transportation Subcommittee, the Pennsylvania State Mayors\u2019 Association and its Executive Board and the Pennsylvania League of Cities and Municipalities as well as the Lehigh Valley Chamber of Commerce Board of Governors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Information Provided By:<br \/>\nJoshua Siegel<br \/>\nPublic Information Officer<br \/>\nCounty of Lehigh, Office of the County Executive<br \/>\n17 S. 7th Street, 4th Floor, Suite 436<br \/>\nAllentown, PA 18101<br \/>\nwww.lehighcounty.org<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class='adkingprobanner sidebar banner3023'><a href='http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/' target=\"_blank\" data-id='3023' data-ga='{\"campaign\":\"\",\"banner\":\"\",\"implemented\":\"universal\",\"imp_action\":\"Impression\",\"click_action\":\"Click\"}'><img src='https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/inpostblank.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class='adkingprobanner sidebar banner7036'><a href='http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com' target=\"_blank\" data-id='7036' data-ga='{\"campaign\":\"\",\"banner\":\"\",\"implemented\":\"universal\",\"imp_action\":\"Impression\",\"click_action\":\"Click\"}'><img src='https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/inpostblank.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?post_type=adverts_posts&p=7036\" class=\"read-more\">Click here to read more... <\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50861,"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-59162","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\/2017\/11\/Lehigh-County.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59162"}],"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=59162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/50861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}