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The city of Erie’s 2021 budget is set. Erie City Council voted 5-2 to approve Mayor Joe Schember’s $97.7 million spending plan at its regular meeting Wednesday night. The budget plugs in a portion of the $97.7 million the city received from Erie Water Works in October, as part of a lease prepayment deal, to eliminate a $3.3 million budget deficit for 2020 to avoid a property tax increase. During budget deliberations, a City Council majority and Schember’s administration agreed to jettison a proposed garbage rate increase that would raise an average residential customer’s yearly fees from the current $261 to $271, as well as a fee hike that would increase the average city residential customer’s sewer rates from roughly $306 a year to $314. ....