Whitehall Township Board of Commissioners, at its Oct. 10 meeting, declined to advance a Lehigh Valley Health Network proposal to add a health campus along MacArthur Road.

LVHN representatives took the floor once again to present an updated plan. The proposed health campus was to include two buildings - a hospital with helipad and medical offices.

Changes made since the Oct. 3 meeting took residents’ concerns into account, said Engineer Scott Pidcock, who presented an updated diagram.

Some of the changes included upgrading four traffic lights on MacArthur Road, creating a three-lane Mechanicsville Road bypass, adding two crosswalks on Mechanicsville Road and removing foliage to enhance the sightline distance from Rural Road.

These changes were made with increased safety and decreased traffic in mind, Pidcock said.

After hearing LVHN’s presentation, as well as the concerns of residents, the commissioners looked for a motion.

A motion to move the proposal to the legal and legislative commission fell flat, while a motion to move it to the planning commission garnered support only from Commissioners Andy Roman and Jeffrey Warren.

In other business, the commissioners approved a major subdivision and land development plan for Whitehall Farms. The housing development would add 43 houses to the township at 3855 Lehigh St. and 3305 Municipal Drive.

At the Sept. 12 meeting, the commissioners outlined three conditions to the project developer: remove the dilapidated basketball court, have the developer pay for a proposed walking path and have the homeowners association maintain the path.

Board President Joe Marx also provided an update on the treasurer’s office, where an audit revealed $77,992 in Whitehall school taxes and township garbage fees in 2018-19 could not be accounted for.

A July 22 letter from RKL, a business consulting firm hired to do an audit of the treasurer’s office, deemed an audit inconclusive and outlined the documents needed to complete the audit.

Solicitor Jack Gross reached out to former Treasurer Colleen Gober to see if she could provide insight on the location of the documents. Gober, Gross, current Treasurer Tina Koren and others reportedly met Sept. 27.

Gober was unable to locate any of the needed documents, according to Marx, who added Gober maintains she left all the required documents organized neatly in the treasurer’s office.

Koren, however, disputed that, saying she has evidence of the disarray she found in the office Jan. 1.

The commissioners next meet 7 p.m. Nov. 7 in the township’s public meeting room, 3219 MacArthur Road.