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Thursday, October 6, 2011

Stoffa Wants to Move Out of Wolf Building

Stoffa says Human Services workers can't stay in Second Street offices much longer.

Northampton County Executive John Stoffa says workers at the Governor Wolf Building need a new home. Stoffa told county council Thursday night that conditions at the Second Street building -- which house several county human services agencies -- had become "an emergency situation" due to deteriorating conditions. Repairs could cost millions of dollars. "We have to get out of Wolf," Stoffa said. "It's going to cost too much for us to stay there." He wants to take human services workers from Wolf and the Bechtel building in Bethlehem, sell both properties, and put all DHS employees in one location. It's just not clear what that location would be. "The problem is finding a building with 270 parking spaces. That’s the primary issue," the …

Dennis R. Lieb

3:30 pm on Friday, October 7, 2011

Part Two... I am 99% sure they will pass the Chrin TIF. When this happens there will be a further de-emphasis of repairing cities, promotion of more sprawl, loss of valuable, close-in farmland, increased traffic in rural areas and future infrastructure liabilities. This will most likely create a situation, where over the TIF lifespan, future costs for repair and replacement of roads constructed …   more ›

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