Villarma brings skills to job of borough finance director

Mason Villarma is good at math.

"It's therapeutic, in a way. It always works out," Villarma, the borough's new finance director, said.

The Gonzaga 2020 grad has plans to work out the borough's books after filling the position - which was vacant for about eight months - in September.

After he snagged an internship with Big Four tax audit firm KPMG in Spokane, Washington, last year, the firm hired Villarma to work in Seattle.

Then the pandemic struck right in the heart of his employment. Like so many others, he was relegated to working from home. That included a lot of remote calls and assisting...