{"id":286987,"date":"2026-09-16T03:56:46","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T03:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/286987\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T03:56:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T03:56:46","slug":"erie-city-council-to-hear-ordinances-moving-4m-to-storm-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/286987\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie City Council to hear ordinances moving $4M to storm relief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Erie City Council is set to have their first reading of an ordinance that would shift $4 million toward cleaning up from the disastrous storms that rolled in at the beginning of the month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to city council&#8217;s agenda, council has two ordinances that would transfer $1 million and $3 million from the Unappropriated Fund as part of the two ordinances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:Erie storm cleanup continues as crews fall behind schedule;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\/news\/local-news\/erie-storm-cleanup-continues-as-crews-fall-behind-schedule\/?ipid=promo-link-block1\" class=\"promo-link__link\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Erie storm cleanup continues as crews fall behind schedule\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Each ordinance would combine to transfer $4 million to Emergency Management Services, with the $1 million transfer being sent to the refuse fund and the $3 million being moved to the general fund to cover unexpected expenses from the severe weather on September 2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">While the city has been in contact with PEMA and federal officials about relief, Mayor Devlin said she believes the city does not qualify for federal aid despite declaring a state of emergency on September 3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The first reading is set to take place at council&#8217;s next meeting on Wednesday, September 16 at 6:30 pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<a 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;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Erie City Council is set to have their first reading of an ordinance that would shift $4 million&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[990,119471,136,138,137,65667,119472],"class_list":["post-286987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-city-council","tag-emergency-management-services","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-ordinances","tag-unappropriated-fund"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286987","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=286987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}