(File Photo of the Beaver County Courthouse)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Beaver, PA) Several topics were discussed at the Beaver County Commissioners’ work session this morning at 10 a.m. at the Beaver County Courthouse in Beaver. During the Department Head Report of the work session, Beaver County Controller Maria Longo mentioned two small concerns to the Beaver County Commissioners. The first was about the current use of credit cards in Beaver County because there have been an increase in charges from those cards that are questionable. Specifically, an upswing in people that are charging purchases for tickets to events for networking that are not related to their job function directly is occurring. Longo wanted to ask them if they could add a section to the policy of the Beaver County Commissioners for purchasing to give an outline of which approvals are needed and what is allowed before expenditures are made. The second concern Longo addressed was regarding multiple charges against the Beaver County District Attorney’s office over the previous two months because several promotional items have the name of Beaver County District Attorney Nate Bible’s name on them and Longo sees this as promoting Bible more than his office by itself. There were also two Starbucks purchases of more $25 and some lunch purchases totaling more than $175. Longo requested to the Beaver County Commissioners that Bible should repay the taxpayers for these charges that are inappropriate and that the Beaver County Commissioners need to help prevent this issue by changes needing to be made about their purchasing policy to include rules for usage of credit cards and rules that show restrictions on purchase types like promotional items with the names of a person on them. In other business, Beaver County Solicitor Garen Fedeles said that the mail ballots for the November 4th, 2025 municipal election were sent out on Saturday. During the part of the Beaver County Commissioners’ work session in which the commissioners spoke about topics they wanted to bring up, Beaver County Commissioner Tony Amadio told the audience of the session that he and Commissioner Jack Manning spoke recently at the Captain William Vicary House in Freedom and saw the portico there and Commissioner Manning also stated that himself and several other people from Beaver County were at the United Way of Beaver County Kickoff breakfast for 2025 this morning at The Fez in Hopewell and that Beaver County is still trying to make jobs so people can be attracted to Beaver County and the job scenario of people there will not get worse.