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Lansford Borough Council will hold a special meeting at the Borough Hall on Wednesday December 31st, 2025 at 9:00a.m. for the purpose of final adoption of the 2026 budget and general purposes. Ashley McLaughlin Secretary Dec 23
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The Borough Council of the Borough of Alburtis, at its regular meeting to be held on Monday, December 29, 2025, commencing at 7:00 p.m. at the Alburtis Borough Hall, 260 Franklin Street, Alburtis, Pennsylvania 18011, will consider, and may thereafter enact, ordinances entitled and summarized as follows:
AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING THE REAL ESTATE TAX RATE
FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 2026 AT 4.58 MILLS (4.50 MILLS FOR
GENERAL BOROUGH PURPOSES AND 0.08 MILLS FOR FIRE
PURPOSES), WHICH IS THE SAME AS THE TAX RATE FOR
FISCAL YEAR 2025; CONFIRMING A 2% DISCOUNT ON REAL
ESTATE TAXES PAID WITHIN TWO MONTHS OF THE DATE OF
THE TAX NOTICE AND A 10% PENALTY FOR FAILURE TO PAY
SUCH TAXES WITHIN FOUR MONTHS AFTER THE DATE OF THE
TAX NOTICE; CONFIRMING WITH NO CHANGE IN RATES FOR
2026 THE PER CAPITA TAX, EARNED INCOME TAX, LOCAL
SERVICES TAX, REALTY TRANSFER TAX, WATER RENTALS
AND FEES, AND THE FEES FOR COLLECTING MUNICIPAL
WASTE AND RECYCLABLE MATERIALS; INCREASING
SANITARY SEWER RENTALS AND FEES BY APPROXIMATELY
TWENTY-FIVE PERCENT (25%), INCLUDING AN INCREASE OF
$25.00 PER CALENDAR QUARTER IN THE FLAT RATE FOR
DWELLING UNITS (TO $125.00 PER CALENDAR QUARTER);
REQUIRING PERMITS FOR DUMPSTERS USED FOR
UNACCEPTABLE WASTE NOT COLLECTED THROUGH THE
BOROUGH WASTE COLLECTION PROGRAM, ESTABLISHING A
SEVENTY-FIVE DOLLAR ($75.00) FEE FOR SUCH PERMITS, AND ESTABLISHING PENALTIES FOR PERMIT VIOLATIONS;
AMENDING CODIFIED ORDINANCES CHAPTER 59 (RELATING
TO RIGHT-OF-WAY MANAGEMENT) TO ADD REGULATIONS
REGARDING THE PLACEMENT OF DUMPSTERS AND PORTABLE
STORAGE DEVICES IN BOROUGH RIGHTS-OF-WAY; AND
ESTABLISHING A NEW HANDICAPPED PARKING SPACE ON THE
EASTERLY SIDE OF FRANKLIN STREET IN FRONT OF
215 FRANKLIN STREET.
AN ORDINANCE REVISING THE COMPENSATION
OR COMPEN-SATION RANGES FOR CERTAIN POSITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT OR APPOINTMENT BY THE BOROUGH, EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2026, INCLUDING CERTAIN ADMINISTRATION EMPLOYEES, MAINTENANCE EMPLOYEES, THE CHIEF OF POLICE, AND PROFESSIONALS; AMENDING CODIFIED ORDINANCES SECTION 12-401 TO INCRCEASE THE ANNUAL WORK BOOT ALLOWANCE FOR FULL-TIME MAINTENANCE EMPLOYEES TO $370.00; AND CONFIRMING THE EXISTING FIDELITY BOND REQUIREMENTS
FOR CERTAIN BOROUGH EMPLOYEES.
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Copies of the full text of the proposed ordinances may be examined or obtained at cost at the Alburtis Borough Hall at the address set forth above during regular business hours, or by making arrangements with the Borough Manager at 610-966-4777. The Alburtis Borough Hall is accessible to the disabled. Please contact the Borough Manager at 610-966-4777 to arrange for any accommodations for a disability.
David G. Knerr, Esquire
Solicitor
Dec 17-18 Show more »
LEGAL NOTICE
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the following Ordinance will be enacted at a meeting of the Borough Council of Lehighton Borough, Carbon County, Pennsylvania to be held on Monday, January 5, 2025, at 6:30 P.M., prevailing time, at the Lehighton Municipal Building located at 1 Constitution Avenue, Lehighton, Pennsylvania: the ordinance is entitiled "AN ORDINANCE OF THE BOROUGH COUNCIL OF LEHIGHTON VACATING A PART OF QUEEN ALLEY IN THE BOROUGH OF LEHIGHTON, COUNTY OF CARBON, PENNSYLVANIA. A summary of the contents of the Ordinance is as follows:
Section 1 the following street is hereby vacated:
Queen Alley between the lands of the Borough of Lehighton as recorded in Carbon County Deed Book Volume 228, Page 550 being the former Mahoning Branch of the LVRR and Bridge Street, Said Queen Alley is shown on a map as prepared by Bruce R. Steigerwalt.
The full text of the Ordinance in its entirety may be examined at the Lehighton Borough Municipal Building located at 1 Constitution Avenue, Lehighton Pennsylvania, Monday through Friday during regular business hours. A copy of the full text of the proposed Ordinance has also been provided to The Times News at 594 Blakeslee Boulevard Drive West, Lehighton, Pennsylvania and the Carbon County Law Library located at the Carbon County Courthouse, Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania and may be examined there.
BOROUGH OF LEHIGHTON
Dane DeWire, Borough Manager
Lehighton Borough
Lehighton Municipal Building
P.O. Box 29
Lehighton, PA 18235
JAMES R. NANOVIC, ESQUIRE
Borough Solicitor
57 Broadway
Jim Thorpe, PA 18229
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NOTICE OF LEHIGH COUNTY ORDINANCES
2025-172: Approving an Addendum to Lease Agreement with MCI Communications Services LLC, a Delaware Limited Liability Company, d/b/a Verizon Business Services.
2025-173: Amending the 2026 Job Classification and Pay Plan Pertaining to Restructuring and Reclassification of the 911 Communications Center Employees.
THE ABOVE ORDINANCES WERE ADOPTED BY THE LEHIGH COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ON DECEMBER 10, 2025, APPROVED BY THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE ON DECEMBER 11, 2025 AND BECOME EFFECTIVE ON DECEMBER 21, 2025.
David Backenstoe, Lehigh County Solicitor
Diana Scholl, Clerk to the Board of Commissioners
Dec 17-18 Show more »
