Erie City Council on Feb. 19 approved two appropriation ordinances and read/adopted four additional ordinances on first reading that fund police, streets and recycling programs and authorize grant-funded equipment.

The council voted unanimously, 6-0, to finally pass Official File Ordinance 11-20-25, appropriating $15,000 from unappropriated and unanticipated revenue donated by Mercy Terrace Apartments for use by the Bureau of Police, Fire and Streets. The body also voted 6-0 to finally pass Official File Ordinance 12-20-25, appropriating $200,000 from a Pennsylvania recycling grant for related expenditures.

Council members then read and adopted four ordinances on first reading by unanimous votes. Those measures included an appropriation of $40,000 from Erie Insurance for the Bureau of Police (Council file 16-502), a $127,000 grant from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania through the Department of Community and Economic Development to fund a police crisis communications vehicle (Council file 16-503), an ordinance to edit and incorporate certain ordinances into the codified ordinances of Erie (Council file 16-504), and a $50,000 appropriation from a Community Partnerships Program grant administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources for unspecified expenditures (Council file 16-505).

The measures were moved and sponsored as recorded in the meeting. Official File Ordinance 11-20-25 was sponsored by Council Member Schauff (mover); the record does not specify the second for that motion. Official File Ordinance 12-20-25 was sponsored by Council Member Schauff and seconded by Council Member Flores. Other sponsors and seconds were recorded in the meeting text as noted in the actions record below.

Votes at a glance
- Official File Ordinance 11-20-25 (appropriation $15,000; source: Mercy Terrace Apartments) — final passage: 6-0 (Brzezinski, Flores, Nelson, Shoff, Troop, Witherspoon) — approved.
- Official File Ordinance 12-20-25 (appropriation $200,000; source: Pennsylvania recycling grant) — final passage: 6-0 (Brzezinski, Flores, Nelson, Shoff, Troop, Witherspoon) — approved.
- Council file 16-502 (appropriation $40,000; source: Erie Insurance) — read and adopted on first reading: 6-0 — first reading adopted.
- Council file 16-503 (appropriation $127,000; source: grant from Commonwealth via Department of Community and Economic Development for a police crisis communications vehicle) — read and adopted on first reading: 6-0 — first reading adopted.
- Council file 16-504 (codification/inclusion of certain ordinances into the codified ordinances of Erie) — read and adopted on first reading: 6-0 — first reading adopted.
- Council file 16-505 (appropriation $50,000; source: DCNR Community Partnerships Program grant) — read and adopted on first reading: 6-0 — first reading adopted.

The measures that were finally passed will take effect according to the city’s usual ordinance-adoption rules; the meeting record did not specify different effective dates. Several of the items are grant-funded and therefore contingent on receipt of the listed funds and any conditions imposed by the grantor agencies.

Council members casting recorded affirmative votes in the measures were Brzezinski, Flores, Nelson, Shoff, Troop and Witherspoon; Council Member Titus was absent. No recorded votes against or abstentions were announced in the meeting transcript.