Beaver County, Pennsylvania

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Beaver County is a county in Pennsylvania. The county seat is Beaver.

[edit] Website evaluation

Main article: Evaluation of Pennsylvania county websites

[edit] The good

  • Elected Officials are listed [1]
  • Meetings schedule posted.[2] Minutes are available but difficult to access.[3]
  • Audit reports are available.[4][5]
  • Local tax information is partially provided
  • Provides information on how to obtain public records.[6]

[edit] The bad

  • Budget is not published.
  • Administrative Officials are not listed
  • Contracts are not listed
  • Lobbying information is not given
  • Local tax information not provided.

[edit] Lobbying

Main article:Pennsylvania taxpayer-funded lobbying

Beaver County has reported $330,000 spent lobbying since 2000 (see table).


Reported lobbying expenditures, 2003-2009 [7]
Year Amount spent on lobbying
2009 $20,000
2008 $70,000
2007 $40,000
2006 $40,000
2005 $60,000
2004 $40,000
2003 $60,000


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