The Erie City Council met on May 8, 2026, at 9:00 a.m. for a regular meeting that included a public hearing on a historic designation, final passage of two ordinances, first reading of four ordinances, new business items, and extensive public comment on community issues. Council President Titus presided.
See if we have any questions on uh we're gonna jump down to those ordinances for final passage. We have two. We have one with the firefighter protective equipment, and then one with the certified local government grant. Are there any questions on on that fight, either of those final passages? From anyone. Are those um state grants? Are those federal grants? Do you know by chance? Uh just more. Just more curiosity. Chief Trot, that grant for firefighter equipment, is that a federal grant? No, that's state grants. State fire. Thank you. Okay, thank you. Good morning. Okay. Well then so I think those ones are pr are pretty straightforward. So if nobody has questions on either of those final passage ones, the again the firefighter protective equipment, um, and then the certified local government grant, then we can hop on down to the ordinances for the first reading. We have um four under ordinances for first reading. So I wanted to see if anybody had any questions on those ordinances that we could get clarification on. I'll just jump right in. Like with ordinance number one. Um if you wanted to, we could, I mean, if we wanted to bring up Jason, we could as well, but just kind of explaining the streets paving for 2026, the 500,000. Jason, will you just come up and talk about paving our favorite topic? Oh yeah. I don't think that mic is on, so I don't know if that's picking up on you. Sorry, there you go. How's that? Better, yes. Better? Okay. So ordinance uh number one and ordinance number two under first reading. We have the five hundred thousand dollars. That that one is uh out of the paving and sewer revenue fund, and then the second one is the million dollars. That's out of the liquid fuels fund. And so that one in particular is split. Um is split six hundred thousand going into the um streets, and then uh four hundred thousand going into street lighting and traffic signals. So all total there um we have 1.5. We add those together. And those are just gonna go in and uh feed our summer street paving. And then just uh so it's I guess clarification also for the public. Could you just explain to just how you guys go down through and maybe pick where you're gonna address and how you you know identifying the the areas most in need with the the paving part? Oh absolutely. Yeah, so what we have is we have uh roadway but uh roadway management technology software that we utilize uh on our it's mounted on our vehicles as GIS technology actually surveys the vehicle, uh the road condition, and it comes up with this thing called the pavement condition index. So it basically ranks the streets. Um so that's that's a key component of it. But the other thing is also um we divide by geographical area. I think everybody understands there's uh community development block grant areas, and then there's the outside areas. So we essentially then you know that it becomes sort of a budget thing.