{"id":282438,"date":"2026-09-09T19:56:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T19:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/282438\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T19:56:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T19:56:21","slug":"the-reader-beat-city-council-notes-from-september-2-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/282438\/","title":{"rendered":"The Reader Beat: City Council Notes from September 2, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    \t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eriereader.com\/image\/scale\/auto\/auto\/articles\/980532_680531_image-from-ios.jpg\" class=\"lightbox_img\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/980532_680531_image-from-ios.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Council unanimously adopted Erie Outside: City of Erie Comprehensive Recreation, Parks, and Open Space Plan as a shared vision and practical roadmap for maintaining, improving, and investing in Erie\u2019s parks to better serve residents today while preparing for future needs. <\/p>\n<p>I attended the City Council meeting on Sept. 2 at 9 a.m. Constituent David French expressed some concerns over e-bikes in the city not obeying traffic laws and using the sidewalks. Councilman Horton suggested that the city create an education campaign about e-bikes in the future.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The council addressed the following ordinances and resolutions:<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nAn ordinance appropriating $10,000 from a Community Partnership Grant administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) passed unanimously.\u00a0&#13;<br \/>\nAn ordinance appropriating $25,000 from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania acting through the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission from the Keystone Historic Preservation Grant passed unanimously.\u00a0&#13;<br \/>\nAn ordinance appropriating $25,000 from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania acting through the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission from the FFY2025 Certified Local Government Grant passed unanimously.\u00a0&#13;<br \/>\nAn ordinance appropriating an $88,823 grant from the Department of Justice FY25 JAG Program for local solicitation for police equipment had its first reading.\u00a0&#13;<br \/>\nA resolution that city officials formally adopt Erie Outside: City of Erie Comprehensive Recreation, Parks, and Open Space Plan as a shared vision and practical roadmap for maintaining, improving, and investing in Erie&#8217;s parks to better serve residents today while preparing for future needs passed unanimously. &#8220;It made me sad to see that even our playgrounds were run down and our kids really don&#8217;t have much to look forward to so I really pushed to make sure that we&#8217;re making our community spaces more representative of what we want to see in Erie,&#8221; Flores said. &#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Council unanimously adopted Erie Outside: City of Erie Comprehensive Recreation, Parks, and Open Space Plan as a shared&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[990,136,138,137,989],"class_list":["post-282438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-city-council","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-the-reader-beat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282438","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=282438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}