Are you curious about how much the city spent on maintaining the streets last year? How about for the last four years?

How about pension or snow removal expenses for the last three years?

If you want to know exactly where your tax dollars are being spent, you will be able to find and analyze all things financial when the new city website is rolled out.

According to City of Bethlehem Business Manager Eric Evans, that’s when phase one of the new program, OpenGov.com, will be available to the general public via a link on the new website.

Evans said that a planned phase two of the project will be devoted to city codes, permits, and real estate, among other areas. Phase three of the open government project will address public safety issues, crime reports and other possible topics.

Lehigh County Executive Armstrong Phillips attended the Feb. 19 city council meeting as part of his plan to visit every municipal government in Lehigh County each year.

“We are a partner with Bethlehem,” said Phillips.

In regular business, the council voted final approval of the sale of the 911 assets to Northampton County as part of an intergovernmental cooperation agreement. Also approved were leasing agreements so the county can use city towers to install the needed 911 equipment.

Council also approved the appointments of Beth Starbuck and Genevieve Marcon to the Board of Historical and Architectural Review; Valerie McLendon to the Bethlehem Housing Authority; Alexander O. Ward to the Fine Arts Commission; Jason R. Henninger to the Redevelopment Authority and Nancy Topping to the Sister City Commission.

Council also gave preliminary approval for a land swap with Little Town LLC. The swaps are for parcels which are less than an acre each; together they will create a road easement to a 13.65-acre site of a planned 178,579 square-foot manufacturing plant near Easton and Mockingbird Hill roads.

Also getting preliminary approval was a proposal to transfer a liquor license to the owners of a grocery store operating as Bethlehem Meat & Produce Corp., located at 226 E. Third St. According to a letter by law firm Norris McLaughlin Attorneys at Law, the owner “does not intend to materially alter [his] business and is simply adding the . . . convenience of beer and, potentially, wine [sales].”

The popular Music in the Park Series got tentative council approval for the Lehigh Valley Musicians Association Local 45 to continue the program.