(Published by Matt Drzik)

“I’ve always been a numbers person.”

Maria Longo, the Controller for Beaver County, made that remark to Matt Drzik on the February 3 edition of A.M. Beaver County. The discussion at hand did indeed revolve around numbers–certain numbers, in fact, that were discovered regarding the money being spent on the county’s stop loss insurance plan and brought to the Commissioners’ attention at the January 27 work session.

According to Longo, this is not the first time that she had brought this to the Commissioners for consideration: “The reason I keep giving the Commissioners a yearly report is because I feel like this is somewhere where the county needs to save money, so that down the road we’re not raising taxes for our taxpayers and residents.”

The good news, for now at least, is that Longo doesn’t see the stop loss insurance situation adversely affecting the citizens of Beaver County. In fact, Longo sees the school taxes being implemented by local schools as an area of larger concern for county citizens down the road.

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