{"id":20841,"date":"2025-10-31T14:17:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T14:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/20841\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T14:17:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T14:17:19","slug":"erie-county-budget-talks-local-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/20841\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie County Budget Talks | Local News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                &#13;<\/p>\n<p>Erie County Executive Brenton Davis called a news conference on Thursday explaining his concerns about County Council wanting a tax increase.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>Erie County Executive Brenton Davis held a news conference raising concerns about Erie County Council considering a tax increase, but Erie County Council Finance Chairman Rock Copeland said Council has yet to even deliberate on a potential tax hike.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Council approved a 0.51-mill tax increase in the budget raising it to 7.12.<\/p>\n<p>Davis argues that because he vetoed that increase, the rate is still currently 6.61.<\/p>\n<p>That matter is still being decided in court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Erie County Executive Brenton Davis called a news conference on Thursday explaining his concerns about County Council&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[853,14324,136,142,14322,345,138,137,14323],"class_list":["post-20841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-brenton-davis","tag-county-budget","tag-erie","tag-erie-county","tag-erie-county-council","tag-erie-county-executive","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-rock-copeland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}