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Erie City Council approves four appropriations; reads another grant ordinance on first reading
Summary
Council unanimously passed four ordinances funding police equipment, community programs and code codification and read a $21,600 DCNR grant ordinance on first reading during its March 5 meeting.
Erie City Council on March 5 unanimously approved four ordinances that appropriate roughly $217,000 in new or unanticipated revenue for police equipment, community programs and codification work, and it read a $21,600 Department of Conservation and Natural Resources grant ordinance on first reading.
The measures passed by 6-0 votes and were sponsored by individual council members. The largest single appropriation was a $127,000 Commonwealth grant for a police crisis communication vehicle; other appropriations included a $40,000 Erie Insurance contribution to the Bureau of Police and two Community Partnership Program grants totaling $71,600 across two ordinances.
Taken together, the ordinances provide funding for police operations, the city’s community partnerships program and the technical work of incorporating certain existing local ordinances into the city’s codified ordinance. Council members who registered the final votes were Council Member Flores, Council Member Nelson, Council Member Shoff, Council Member Titus, Council Member Troop and Council President Mel Witherspoon.
The council approved the following final-passage ordinances: - Official ordinance 13-20-25 (Council file 16502) — $40,000 from unappropriated revenue, a contribution from Erie Insurance for use by the Bureau of Police. Sponsored by Council Member Shaw. Passed 6-0. - Official ordinance 14-20-25 (Council file 16503) — $127,000 grant from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, through the Department of Community and Economic Development, to purchase a police crisis communication vehicle. Sponsored by Council Member Schauff. Passed 6-0. - Official ordinance 15-20-25 (Council file 16504) — approval to edit and include certain ordinances as parts of the codified ordinances of Erie, Pennsylvania (codification/technical update). Sponsored by Council Member Witherspoon. Passed 6-0. - Official ordinance 16-20-25 (Council file 16505) — $50,000 from an unanticipated Community Partnerships Program grant administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation. Sponsored by Council Member Nelson. Passed 6-0.
Council also read and adopted on first reading council file ordinance 16-50-6 (official ordinance number 17-20-25 in the transcript), an ordinance appropriating $21,600 from an anticipated DCNR Community Partnership Program grant; the measure passed first reading by a 6-0 vote and will return for final consideration on a future agenda.
The council took no debate on the measures beyond sponsor identification and routine roll call votes. No formal amendments or recorded dissents were made during the deliberations.
Council staff and the administration indicated the grants and donations come from state agencies and a private insurer; the administration will manage the expenditures through the city’s normal accounting process and report back as required by the grant agreements.
Votes at a glance: the four final-passage ordinances listed above were approved unanimously, and one additional grant ordinance was approved on first reading for later final passage.
