EASTON, Pa. – Northampton County has a new controller, and its council has a new solicitor.<\/p>\n
Both positions were on the agenda for council’s meeting Thursday night.<\/p>\n
The position of county controller was vacated by Tara Zrinski, who is now the county executive.<\/p>\n
Four candidates applied for the job and were interviewed by members of council on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Ultimately, Timothy Brezinski, a certified public accountant (CPA) from Hanover Township, got the gig. He’s currently the controller of Allentown’s Comprehensive Pain Center, and he’s has had prior positions in accounting and finance.<\/p>\n
“My skill is accounting. I do know numbers. Numbers do mean something to me,” Brezinski told council.<\/p>\n
He got five affirmative votes from the nine-member body. The other candidates were John Cusick, Leo Atkinson, and Thomas Frumpkin. Cusick, a former Northampton County commissioner (members of council are called commissioners), previously ran for the role of county controller in 2023 but lost to Zrinski.<\/p>\n
Northampton County Council also selected Matthew Deschler to serve as its next solicitor. He’ll take over for Christopher Spadoni, who is retiring.<\/p>\n
In addition, council approved Zrinski’s nominees for director of administration (Mark Aurand) and director of corrections (DeAnn Lawrence).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EASTON, Pa. – Northampton County has a new controller, and its council has a new solicitor. Both positions…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,34703,4361,21615,46524,46525,46526,32048,434,4731,46523,16077,46527,46528],"class_list":{"0":"post-94803","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-bethlehem","9":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","10":"tag-bethlehem-news","11":"tag-christopher-spadoni","12":"tag-commissioner","13":"tag-controller","14":"tag-deann-lawrence","15":"tag-john-cusick","16":"tag-leo-atkinson","17":"tag-matthew-deschler","18":"tag-northampton-county","19":"tag-northampton-county-council","20":"tag-solicitor","21":"tag-tara-zrinski","22":"tag-thomas-frumpkin","23":"tag-timothy-brezinski"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94803","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=94803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}