{"id":26166,"date":"2025-11-06T01:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T01:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/26166\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T01:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T01:09:09","slug":"schember-presents-final-budget-as-city-of-erie-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/26166\/","title":{"rendered":"Schember presents final budget as City of Erie mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Erie Mayor Joe Schember and his administration have presented the final city budget proposal of his eighth year as mayor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It comes with potentially not only more increases to garbage and sewer fees, but also a hike in property taxes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\/news\/local-news\/experts-say-now-is-the-time-to-prepare-your-car-for-another-erie-winter\/?ipid=promo-link-block1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Experts say now is the time to prepare your car for another Erie winter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\"> Experts say now is the time to prepare your car for another Erie winter <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Mayor Schember shared the budget proposal with Erie City Council on Wednesday morning. In total, it amounts to a $110 million spending plan.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Schember said those increases would prevent them from using the city\u2019s reserve funds to fill the gaps, or from cutting city programs and positions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In total, adding just shy of $6 million to the balance. City council will now start to review the mayor\u2019s proposal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Erie Mayor Joe Schember and his administration have presented the final city budget proposal of his eighth year&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,5241,138,137,3177],"class_list":["post-26166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-city-council","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-joe-schember"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26166","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=26166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}