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Votes at a glance: Erie council approves multiple appropriations, bond guarantee and study referendum
Summary
City Council passed multiple ordinances Wednesday, including appropriations for museum upgrades, streets paving, a water‑system bond guarantee, LED upgrades and a referendum to study a home‑rule charter. Several other ordinances were adopted on first reading.
City Council on Wednesday passed a package of ordinances and adopted several others on first reading during a single meeting session.
Final passage items (approved by recorded roll call) included the following (members voting yes in each recorded roll call: Brzezinski, Flores, Shoff, Troop and Titus):
- Official File Ordinance 21‑20‑25 (Council File 16‑5‑10): Appropriates $5,000,000 from unappropriated and unanticipated revenue for upgrades to the Experience Children’s Museum facility to be completed by a subgrantee; funding described in the record as pass‑through from the Pennsylvania Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program (RACP). Sponsor: Council Member Titus. Outcome: Passed, yeas 5, nays 0.
- Official File Ordinance 22‑20‑25 (Council File 16‑5‑11): Appropriates $80,000 from the enterprise revolving loan fund for utilization and the flagship Commodore project. Sponsor: Council Member Titus. Outcome: Passed, yeas 5, nays 0.
- Official File Ordinance 23‑20‑25 (Council File 16‑5‑12): Authorizes lease rental debt evidenced by a guaranteed revenue bond in a maximum principal amount of $3,233,574 for construction and improvements to public water distribution facilities, including customer‑side galvanized service line replacement; identifies the Erie City Water Authority and the Pennsylvania Infrastructure Investment Authority in connection with the guarantee and sinking fund arrangements. Sponsor: Council Member Brzezinski. Outcome: Passed, yeas 5, nays 0.
- Official File Ordinance 24‑20‑25 (Council File 16‑5‑13): Appropriates $400,000 from unappropriated fund balance in the Liquid Fuels Fund for 2025 street paving. Sponsor: Council Member Brzezinski. Outcome: Passed, yeas 5, nays 0.
- Official File Ordinance 25‑20‑25 (Council File 16‑5‑14): Appropriates $400,000 from unappropriated fund balance in the Paving and Sewer Revenue Fund for 2025 street paving. Sponsor: Council Member Brzezinski. Outcome: Passed, yeas 5, nays 0.
- Official File Ordinance 26‑20‑25 (Council File 16‑5‑15): Adds subsection 101(c) authorizing a referendum to study the existing form of government and the advisability of adopting a home‑rule charter for the City of Erie. Sponsor: Council Member Titus. Outcome: Passed, yeas 5, nays 0.
- Official File Ordinance 27‑20‑25 (Council File 16‑5‑16): Amends codified ordinances (Article 951, residential refuse) to modify fees for properties with excessive garbage or waste and to enhance health, safety and quality of residential housing. Sponsor: Council Member Titus. Outcome: Passed, yeas 5, nays 0.
- Official File Ordinance 28‑20‑25 (Council File 16‑5‑17): Appropriates $100,000 in unappropriated and anticipated revenue for purchase of LED lighting upgrades. Sponsor: Council Member Brzezinski. Outcome: Passed, yeas 5, nays 0.
The council also read and adopted several ordinances on first reading (no final passage recorded for these items):
- Council File 16‑5‑18: Appropriating $442,377.30 from sewer fund balance for ongoing sewer projects; adopted on first reading. Sponsor: Council Member Titus.
- Council File 16‑5‑19: Appropriating $137,600 from unappropriated and unanticipated revenue for two traffic investigation vehicles; related to a Pennsylvania DCED grant (C000090421); adopted on first reading. Sponsor: Council Member Schaff.
- Council File 16‑5‑20: Appropriating $355,300 from unappropriated fund balance for unexpected expenses; adopted on first reading. Sponsor: Council Member Titus.
- Council File 16‑5‑21: Amendments to the firefighters pension fund to comply with a recent Act 111 award; adopted on first reading and recorded as passed in the council record. Sponsor: Council Member Schoch.
Several of these items carried short explanatory remarks on purpose and funding sources during the meeting; most were adopted with unanimous recorded votes of the five members present. No amendments were recorded during the final‑passage roll calls shown in the meeting transcript.
