{"id":58698,"date":"2025-12-12T03:03:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T03:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/58698\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T03:03:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T03:03:12","slug":"berks-county-commissioners-declare-emergency-to-make-repairs-from-water-damage-at-berks-county-youth-center-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/58698\/","title":{"rendered":"Berks County Commissioners declare emergency to make repairs from water damage at Berks County Youth Center | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"

READING, Pa. \u2013The Berks County Commissioners adopted a resolution Thursday morning to declare an emergency to complete remediation and repairs needed at the Leesport building which houses the Berks County Youth Center and the Berks County Library Headquarters.<\/p>\n

Damage at the building was the result of a water leak issue.<\/p>\n

Whenever the commissioners make such a declaration, it waives all the requirements of procurement law and ratifies and confirms purchase orders issued for repairs.<\/p>\n

\"Berks<\/p>\n

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Berks County Commissioner Christian Leinbach<\/p>\n

Jace Codi | WFMZ-TV <\/p>\n

Commissioner Christian Leinbach said the problem stemmed from a one-inch water line that was being worked on, and because of a blown fitting, the high pressure dispersed a large amount of water in a short time resulting in significant damage.<\/p>\n

In other business, the commissioners voted to:<\/p>\n

Appoint Paul McCosby to Assistant Public Defender II, effective Dec. 17 at an annual rate of $73,000.<\/p>\n

Reappoint Amanda Hernandez, Blandon, to the County Children and Youth Services Advisory Board for a three-year term expiring on Dec. 31, 2028.<\/p>\n

Appoint Dolores Martinez, Reading, to the County Children and Youth Services Advisory Board for a three-year term expiring on Dec. 31, 2028.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. \u2013The Berks County Commissioners adopted a resolution Thursday morning to declare an emergency to complete remediation…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[32108,32104,32105,32107,10200,32106,32110,32109,128,130,129],"class_list":{"0":"post-58698","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-amanda-hernandez","9":"tag-assistant-public-defender-ii","10":"tag-berks-county-library-headquarters","11":"tag-berks-county-youth-center","12":"tag-christian-y-leinbach","13":"tag-dolores-martinez","14":"tag-paul-mccosby","15":"tag-procurement-law","16":"tag-reading-city","17":"tag-reading-city-headlines","18":"tag-reading-city-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58698","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=58698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}