Commissioners approve settlement over Friendship Ridge sale
By a 2-1 vote, the Beaver County Commissioners on Thursday approved a settlement and mutual release with
The county will turn over
There will be no future claims by the county or Comprehensive as part of the settlement.
"It ends the matter for us," Fedeles said.
Commissioners
"I would have taken (Comprehensive) to court," Egley said.
After Egley and Camp took office in 2016, they ordered a forensic audit into the sale to confirm Controller
That audit, on which the county spent more than
"I stand behind these numbers," Egley said. "I think the taxpayers deserve an answer to several questions they're asking (about the sale)."
But since she was outvoted, "there's nothing I can do," Egley said.
After the audit was completed, officials from both sides met and exchanged letters several times to try reach a settlement. In
During the negotiations, Comprehensive officials disputed the county's finding and contended that it was Comprehensive that was owed -- to the tune of more than
"We couldn't take the chance of losing," is how Camp explained his vote to settle Thursday.
"We didn't have that strong of a case," he said.
Amadio is the only commissioner who was in office at the time of the sale, which all parties agree was a lengthy and complicated process that took more than a year.
When the deal was closed in 2014, Amadio said he thought the sale was completed. He's consistently believed that and has opposed pursuing the issue further with Comprehensive. He voted in favor of the settlement to end the issue.
"I'm just glad we've got closure on it," Amadio said. "I don't know how strong our case really was."
The sales agreement had several areas in it that could be interpreted differently, and Fedeles said that weakened the county's case if pursued further.
"I wasn't privy (to) or part of any of those interactions" to settle with Comprehensive, Rossi said.
The county was owed
Because of that, he said he didn't know what led the commissioners to settle, Rossi said.
"The commissioners (Camp and Amadio) and I have a difference of opinion, and I was overruled," Egley said. "It will be the end of the issue."
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