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Beaver County officials discuss tighter credit‑card controls and flag questionable purchases
Summary
Commissioners and a department speaker raised concerns about promotional items with personal names, repeated meal and travel charges, and sheriff deputy allowances; the board discussed removing departmental credit cards, issuing fuel cards, enforcing reimbursement, and pursuing documentation or referrals to ethics/legal offices.
At a Dec. 3 Beaver County work session, an official (Speaker 1) criticized a range of county purchases — from $3,200 in promotional items bearing personal names to repeated meal charges and unusually large tips on departmental credit cards — and argued those expenditures contributed to the county’s budget shortfall.
Speaker 1 called some purchases "unethical" and said prior referrals to the attorney general and ethics board had not led to enforcement. "It is unethical,"…
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