Beaver County officials clear way for October hazardous-waste event, move tax-sales to Vanport; BOOM leases, garage bid previewed

Beaver County commissioners at a work session Wednesday, June 25, agreed to proceed with an annual household hazardous waste event in October in cooperation with the Pennsylvania Resource Council and announced that the county's September 9 and December 9 tax-judicial sales will be held at the Local 7-12 Union Hall in Vanport, officials said. Staff also previewed 27 resolutions to be considered at the next meeting, including leases tied to the BOOM festival and a bid award for a parking-garage renovation.

The request to hold the hazardous-waste event came from county staff, who told commissioners: "We've just found out that we are able to hold a household hazardous waste event for this year. So I'm here asking for the board of commissioners blessing to be able to have the annual household hazardous waste event on October in cooperation with Pennsylvania Resource Council," (Staff member). The record does not show a formal roll-call vote on the event; staff acknowledged the request and the exchange ended with "Okay. Thank you" (Staff member).

Staff also reported changes to the location for the county's tax and judicial sales after the lease on the building previously used in Rochester expired. "We've been holding our tax sales and our judicial sales over in Rochester for the past couple years at the building that we rented out for the tax reassessment. Our lease on that building has expired. So we reached out to the local 7 12, and they've been in agreement to allow our September 9 and December 9 sale to be held at that facility down there," (Staff member). The county said Josh will advertise the upcoming sales.

Commissioners were given a preview of 27 resolutions on the agenda for the next regular meeting. Staff highlighted specific items: No. 10 authorizes a summer camp run through the Beaver County YMCA for youth countywide; Nos. 11 and 20 are for legal services related to the Office on Aging and to Children & Youth Services (CYS); Nos. 8 and 26 are described as the final two leases needed to support the BOOM event in Bridgewater; and No. 27 is a bid award for renovation work on the county parking garage to Cart Walker Construction. On the garage project, staff said a pre-construction meeting will be scheduled once contracts are finalized and warned that "there's gonna be a little bit of a, inconvenience, I guess, likely throughout that project, but we'll keep everyone updated as we get more information" (Staff member).

Separately, staff reported an award for the county broadband program, saying: "I just like to mention that, our broadband program, Connected Beaver County, won a national award. Probably private partnership, with an organization called Pintoa. So it's a national award. And in August, Oregon goes to Louisiana and New Orleans to accept the award," (Staff member). The transcript provides limited detail on the award or the organization names referenced.

Staff and commissioners also reminded the public about the BOOM event on June 28 in Bridgewater, announcing hours and locations: "Beaver County BOOM on the bridge . . . June 28, 3 to 10PM in Bridgewater on Bridge Street and the Rochester Bridgewater Bridge," (Staff member). The meeting record notes that Manaka (as spoken in the meeting) will hold a community day across the river during BOOM.

The session concluded with staff saying an executive session was not needed that day and the meeting was adjourned.

Notes: The transcript reflects discussion and administrative direction but shows no formal roll-call votes recorded during the work session. Where the transcript supplies only a name fragment or unclear spelling (for example, "Pintoa," "Manaka," and a reference to "Oregon" going to New Orleans), the article reports those strings as spoken; those items were not fully clarified on the record.