ALLENTOWN, Pa. — Decades of Allentown taxpayers are set to help pay for new facilities for many city employees.
City Council on Wednesday approved borrowing up to $134 million in bonds for an expanded Allentown Police Department and a new Central Fire Station that also will house EMTs and the city’s Health Bureau.
Those two projects are projected to cost the city about $86 million; council already has set aside $9 million in federal coronavirus pandemic-relief funding for the new police station…