{"id":288293,"date":"2026-09-17T17:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T17:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/288293\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T17:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T17:36:11","slug":"erie-city-council-to-hear-ordinances-moving-4m-to-storm-relief-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/288293\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie City Council to hear ordinances moving $4M to storm relief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:WJET Erie;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"WJET Erie\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"96\" height=\"96\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789666571_555_aol_wjet_erie_articles_147.png\"\/><\/a>Updated Wed, September 16, 2026 at 9:16 PM UTC<img alt=\"\" fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/c85627e0-7fcf-4ffe-adfb-97bdf70f5a23.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>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>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><a data-ylk=\"elmt:article-inline-link;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\/news\/local-news\/erie-storm-cleanup-continues-as-crews-fall-behind-schedule\/?ipid=promo-link-block1\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\tErie storm cleanup continues as crews fall behind schedule\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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>&#8220;Four million dollars is a lot of money that we weren&#8217;t expecting,&#8221; said Erie City Councilmember Marilyn Pol. &#8220;Hopefully we can work things out, and the most important thing is getting our citizens back up and running.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>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>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>Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<a data-ylk=\"elmt:article-inline-link;\" 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":"Updated Wed, September 16, 2026 at 9:16 PM UTC Erie City Council is set to have their first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-288293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288293","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=288293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}