Erie County Council met to to vote on overriding vetoes that the County Executive made to the Erie County budget and it was standing room only with plenty of citizens being heard and even some being kicked out.

The biggest issue on the agenda was eliminating some positions at the Blasco Memorial Library but after some of the citizens who opposed those jobs going away were heard, Council ended up voting to keep a majority of them, much to the delight of Krista Perry.

"The library is a sanctuary and a haven for all of us, we wanted to protect that and we wanted to protect the jobs of the people who serve us everyday," Perry said.

Erie County solicitor William Speros has been through this process before and said he wanted Council to be fair with their votes.

"All you can ask for is that County Council carefully considers all sides of an issue before they vote on the override of a veto and I think that happened," Speros said.

"They saw balance of Council overriding the vetoes to keep the positions at the library, I think the Human Relations Council we knew that we were going to override that from the beginning," Terry Scutella, Erie County Councilman said.

That vote funding the Human Relations Commission is a vote that Chairman of the board, Alex Sphon, said will only benefit the county.

"With a vote of 7-0, to us that is a firm show of support that they really support the people that need our voice and support the most," Sphon said. 

After the back and forth ended, Erie County Council Chairman Brian Shank, in his last meeting as chairman, said he was pleased to see compromise.

"Is that not amazing how that worked out, after they got some positive feedback and the fact that we were not going to take those jobs away, they were excited and I even complimented them for that, which is so much nicer than being yelled at," Shank said.