The Beaver County Commissioners met with coroner David Gabauer during their weekly work session today and agreed to increase the cremation fee charged funeral homes from ten to thirty dollars. Beaver County Radio’s Greg Benedetti reports that so far this year, there have been 628 cremations, up from last year’s 536. Gabauer said he expects this year’s autopsies to finish the calendar year at a cost of about 190-thousand dollars. As for the cremation fee, the money will be used to offset salaries for the coroner’s three part-time deputies. Two are paid 15-thousand and one is paid 17-5.