{"id":297063,"date":"2026-09-30T19:07:06","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T19:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/297063\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T19:07:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T19:07:06","slug":"proposed-erie-county-budget-has-no-tax-increase-for-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/297063\/","title":{"rendered":"Proposed Erie County budget has no tax increase for 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/8c876eee-db03-419a-9ee8-a89a68bdb6ee.jpeg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"Erie County Executive Christina Vogel works in her office at the Erie County Courthouse on Jan. 20, 2026.\" alt=\"Erie County Executive Christina Vogel works in her office at the Erie County Courthouse on Jan. 20, 2026.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Erie County Executive Christina Vogel works in her office at the Erie County Courthouse on Jan. 20, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>                A.J. RAO\/ERIE TIMES-NEWS<\/p>\n<p>            USA TODAY Network, Reuters<\/p>\n<p>Erie County Executive Christina Vogel is proposing no increase in county taxes in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Vogel&#8217;s proposed $565,356,846 general fund budget &#8211; up about 2.9% from the current year &#8211; would be balanced instead with $4,550,386 from the county&#8217;s unrestricted reserve fund.<\/p>\n<p>If the budget is approved by Erie County Council, the property tax rate would remain at 6.94 mills, or $694 for a property with an assessed value of $100,000.<\/p>\n<p>In outlining the proposed budget on Sept. 30, Vogel said that streamlined operations, spending less than amounts budgeted through the year in spite of inflation, and the elimination of some long-vacant positions has helped the county reduce overhead and increase efficiency without employee layoffs.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed budget focuses spending on essential services and expands the county&#8217;s commitment to emergency medical services, Vogel said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This budget keeps county government centered on what it does best, public safety, public health and efficient delivery of services while avoiding new programs outside our core responsibilities,&#8221; Vogel said.<\/p>\n<p>The reserve fund<\/p>\n<p>There was more than $51.3 million in the county&#8217;s unrestricted reserve fund at the end of 2025, according to audited financial statements. And that amount has since grown, Vogel said.<\/p>\n<p>Using reserve funds rather than a tax increase to balance the budget will h<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Check back for updates.<\/p>\n<p>Contact Valerie Myers at vmyers@usatodayco.com.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Erie Times-News: Proposed Erie County budget has no tax increase for 2027<\/p>\n<p>Reporting by Valerie Myers, Erie Times-News \/ Erie Times-News<\/p>\n<p>USA TODAY Network via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n<p>Copyright Reuters or USA Today via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary gray\">This story was originally published September 30, 2026 at 11:31 AM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Erie County Executive Christina Vogel works in her office at the Erie County Courthouse on Jan. 20, 2026.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-297063","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\/297063","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=297063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}