{"id":322557,"date":"2026-11-06T18:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T18:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/322557\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T18:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T18:26:07","slug":"2027-bethlehem-budget-includes-nearly-3-tax-hike-bethlehem-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/322557\/","title":{"rendered":"2027 Bethlehem budget includes nearly 3% tax hike | Bethlehem Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BETHLEHEM, Pa. &#8211; Property owners in Bethlehem could be paying more in taxes next year.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor J. William Reynolds delivered his 2027 budget address this morning at ArtsQuest&#8217;s new Creative Factory, and the spending plan includes a nearly 3% tax hike.<\/p>\n<p>Reynolds also said that recycling fees would be raised.<\/p>\n<p>The mayor touted park improvements made this year, additions to the city&#8217;s fire department and EMS squad, and investments in its police department.<\/p>\n<p>\nCopyright 2026 Maranatha Broadcasting Co., Inc.. All Rights Reserved.\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, Pa. &#8211; Property owners in Bethlehem could be paying more in taxes next year. Mayor J. William&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,1391],"class_list":["post-322557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-bethlehem-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322557","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=322557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}