ALLENTOWN, Pa. – Jon Irons is stepping down from his position at the Lehigh County Board of Commissioners.\u00a0<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, Irons published an open letter about his resignation ahead of a planned family move to Atlanta for new job opportunities.<\/p>\n
Irons wrote that he would end his third year in office on July 9.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He was initially elected to the board of commissioners in 2023 and focused on increasing house affordability and ending mass incarceration.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Irons supported and sponsored grants that decreased crime, food insecurity and poverty, according to a press release.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile I wish that I had more time to work on improving the lives of county residents, I am proud of the work that I was able to accomplish alongside community organizers and my colleagues on the board,\u201d Irons wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Lehigh County Executive Josh Siegel made a statement on Irons’ resignation, saying he has been a powerful voice of conscience on the board with a “keen sense of justice and boundless compassion.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
“He understands government\u2019s obligation to serve as a bulwark against life\u2019s hardships, especially for the struggling and underprivileged,” Siegel said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The board of commissioners said it will begin asking for applications and appoint a new commissioner to complete Irons\u2019 term, which runs through 2027.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. – Jon Irons is stepping down from his position at the Lehigh County Board of Commissioners.\u00a0…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[21193,119,121,120,4844,153,10942,9570,23193,67816,910,7174],"class_list":["post-234048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-affordability","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-atlanta","tag-bethlehem","tag-georgia","tag-jon-irons","tag-july","tag-lehigh-county-commissioner","tag-resignation","tag-retirement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}