The City of Erie, Pennsylvania, is the Erie on the hook for fire and police pensions. https://www.paauditor.gov/media/default/MunPenReporting/RPT_2016_MuniPensi

The City of Erie, Pennsylvania, is the Erie on the hook for fire and police pensions. https://www.paauditor.gov/media/default/MunPenReporting/RPT_2016_MuniPension_STATUS_REPORT_Dec2016_FINAL.pdf https://www.paauditor.gov/media/default/MunPenReporting/RPT_... Why bring it up? Because cities are special purpose vehicles to fund police/firefighter pensions which have a side hustle in providing civic infrastructure. That's quite relevant to the question of why costs are increasing (because politically powerful people got placated), whether investments in infrastructure will reduce costs (strictly impossible), and whether property developers are to blame for underfunded infrastructure (they do not receive checks from the city every month).