File Photo of the Beaver County Courthouse)
Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(Beaver, PA) Several topics were discussed at yesterday morning’s Beaver County Commissioners’ work session at the County Courthouse.
David Thompson, the Assistant Director for the Beaver County Planning Commission, announced during the department head report of the session that the county was awarded $8 million last week across seven projects for grants in 2025 “on the side of the redevelopment authority.”
Specifically, Bet-Tech, the Center Township Police Department and Mitsubishi Electric Power Products, Inc. were received on the redevelopment authority’s side and Thompson said that the other four will be reached out to for about their funding.
County Solicitor Garen Fedeles mentioned some highlights of the forty-two resolutions that are scheduled for today.
These included the agreements between local drug task forces and emergency care units, and New Sewickley Township and Center Township are included for today’s resolution and for a new county website.
Fedeles noted that this new website “probably won’t be implemented until the beginning of next year.” Even though C-CAP is the provider for it, Fedeles confirmed that that provider will not be doing and hosting websites, which means they have to go to another entity. This website will also save the Commissioners $1,000 this year.
Fedeles also noted that another resolution has to do with the project involving the liner of the Old Economy Park pool in Baden because it is an agreement with the YMCA to continue to run it. He said that “you can expect an announcement” today regarding that project and that the pool “is going to open.”
The others were about HVACs at the Beaver Falls Library and for Youngblood Paving, Inc. to conduct paving work in August on the intersection of Dutch Ridge Road and Friendship Ridge.
Commissioner Jack Manning thanked County Recreation and Tourism Director during the Commissioners’ report for his contribution to the ribbon cutting event at the Brady’s Run Dog Park which involved the Rainbow Bridge.
Manning also let the audience of the session know that the Commissioners were at the Community College of Beaver County yesterday, and they noted that CCBC has had “six straight semesters of enrollment increases.”
Manning also acknowledged the Vietnam Veterans’ Moving Wall event in Patterson Township that ended on Monday which was a replica that is half the size of the Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial in Washington, D.C. that honored over 58,000 local veterans that gave their lives in the Vietnam War.
