Lehigh Valley Health Network’s ambulances will be one of three tenants in the new shared Emergency Services Facility, which is being built across the street from the West End Fire Department.

Chestnuthill Township supervisors approved the lease agreement at their meeting Tuesday evening.

“It begins on January 1, 2025, and is a 22-year lease. LVHN will pay a yearly rent of $160,000,” said supervisors Chairman Chuck Gould.

The building’s other two occupants will be the West End Fire Department and a remote location for the Monroe County Office of Emergency Management, Gould said.

The new facility and township road work are the two major spending projects in the 2024 budget, which was approved during the meeting. There will be no tax increase, said township manager David Albright.

In other business:

• Supervisors said they have a grant for about $300,000 for a winter material storage shed in Mt. Effort. They voted to advertise for bids for a shed that will hold salt and cinders, which will be delivered directly to the location.

• Supervisors’ reorganization meeting will be at 5 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 2. held Tuesday, The supervisors regular meeting will follow.

• The auditors reorganization meeting is at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 3.