(Matt Drzik/Beaver County Radio)

Two years into the pandemic, the citizens of Beaver County have another tool to find out how much is being spent and reimbursed on certain projects.

Controller Maria Longo spoke about the new ARPA Tracker to the Beaver County Commissioners at the weekly Wednesday work session on May 4; announcing that the tracker was live at the Controller’s page at the county’s website. Longo mentioned that the tracker keeps count and displays the amount of money allocated by the Commissioners in conjunction with how much is spent (and then reimbursed) by the local municipalities.

That difference is a key in unclouding the confusion that some municipalities have had in regard to the ARPA money, as both Longo and the Commissioners pointed out on Wednesday. “We’re still getting a lot of municipalities asking about how to get reimbursed,” Chairman Dan Camp said at the work session. “A lot of municipalities thought we would just send them a check.”

“We’re not cutting checks to municipalities,” Commissioner Jack Manning added, implying that the municipalities will have to spend the money first and then be reimbursed through the allocated funding allotted by the Commissioners.

The next work session is scheduled for May 11 at 10:00 AM at the Beaver County Courthouse.