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Votes at a glance: Erie County Council approves minutes, appointments and repository sales; hears first reads on budget and contracts
Summary
At its Jan. 14 meeting the Erie County Council approved minutes, voted on several ordinances and appointments, and publicly read first-reading ordinances including a $124,227 general fund supplemental appropriation for cold-case DNA prosecutions and a sole-vendor contract waiver for ESRI.
Erie County Council completed a series of routine votes and appointments at its Jan. 14, 2025 meeting and read several ordinances for first consideration.
On formal votes, the council approved minutes from a previous meeting; passed Ordinance No. 97-2024 (appointed official salary ordinance for a full-time assistant public defender); approved the second reading of Ordinance No. 4, 2025 (County Council deputy solicitor retainer); and approved multiple appointments and repository sales. The meeting record shows recorded affirmative votes for each listed item with no recorded nays or abstentions in the transcript excerpts.
Appointments approved or moved by motion and recorded vote included a possible appointment of Daryl A. Smith to the Erie County Gaming Revenue Authority (term to expire Dec. 21, 2029), appointment of Krista Perry Lamb to the Human Relations Commission (term to expire Dec. 31, 2028), and appointment of Susanna Faulkner to the Erie County Land Bank (term to expire Dec. 31, 2029). The transcript records motions, seconds and affirmative roll-call votes for these appointments.
The council also approved possible sales of unsold repository parcels with index numbers 1401022, 15021007 and 18051024 after motions and recorded voice votes.
Under new business the council held first readings of several ordinances: Ordinance No. 1, 2025 (a 2025 general fund budget supplemental appropriation of $124,227 for prosecuting cold cases using a DNA grant and creation of new line items); Ordinance No. 2, 2025 (approval of waiver of bid requirements under the purchasing code and approval of a sole-vendor contract between Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI) and the Erie County Health Department); and the first read of Ordinance No. 5, 2025 which included an appointed official salary ordinance and the possible appointment noted above. Those items were presented for first reading; the transcript does not record final votes on the first-read ordinances.
The council announced upcoming committee meetings and the next regular council meeting on Jan. 28, 2025; it closed the Jan. 14 meeting after completing agenda business.
