Lehigh County commissioners have approved an amendment to the administrative code to require the county executive to provide an electronic copy of the annual budget.

The amendment, sponsored by Commissioners Amanda Holt and Michael Schware, is designed to give commissioners more time to consider the annual budget between the time they receive it and the time they have to vote for it.

In other business at the Dec. 13 meeting, the board approved an amendment allowing commissioners to have a say in the choice of health insurance providers.

Commissioners also gave preliminary approval - a first reading to several new motions, one of which was to accept a gift from Lehigh Carbon Community College for $3,625 as a donation for homeless veterans.

The college’s Veterans Club raised the money.

Commissioners also gave preliminary approval to a memorandum of understanding with the Pennsylvania Social Services Union, SEIU 668.

According to the memorandum, union members have been working without a pay increase since January 2014.

The agreement sets the details of pay and benefits for Department of Human Services employees.

Among the benefits are: a $1,000 lump sum payment for full-time personnel employed as of Dec. 12 and a 6.5 percent retroactive gross pay increase for those employees still employed by Lehigh County.

Effective Jan. 1, 2018, union employees will also get a 2.75 percent gross pay increase.