Erie County Council members elected Terry Scatella chair and Rob Copeland vice chair during a leadership vote held at the council meeting. The council first considered a nomination for Rob Copeland to serve as chair; that nomination failed in a roll-call vote. The council then elected Terry Scatella chair, 4-3, and later approved Rob Copeland as vice chair in a subsequent roll-call vote.

The initial motion to name Rob Copeland chair failed on a roll call that recorded yes votes from Mister Bechtel, Mister Horton and Mister Copeland and no votes from Mister Showerman, Mister Scatella, Mister Winarce and Mister Veil, yielding a tally of 3 yes and 4 no. That outcome prompted a second nomination for chair.

The council then voted to elect Terry Scatella as chair. The roll-call vote recorded yes votes from Mrs. Sharman, Mr. Skatela, Mr. Winarski and Mr. Bale and no votes from Mr. Horton, Mr. Copeland and Mr. Drexel, a 4-3 result in favor of Scatella. Following the result, the meeting was turned over to the newly elected chair.

Rob Copeland was later nominated and elected vice chair by roll call. The roll call recorded yes votes from Mrs. Sharman, Mr. Scatella, Mr. Winarsky, Mr. Bale, Mr. Copeland, Mr. Drexel and Mr. Horton (seven yes votes were recorded). Afterward, Rob Copeland offered brief remarks congratulating the new chair. "I just like to congratulate you on your election of chair," said Rob Copeland, Erie County Council member and vice chair-elect.

Terry Scatella, after the vote, thanked members on the dais. "I wanna thank the people that voted for me and the people that didn't vote for," Scatella said, acknowledging divided votes and urging collegiality moving forward. The meeting proceeded to other routine items and later adjourned.

All quoted remarks and recorded votes are taken from the meeting transcript. No ordinance, budgetary action or other formal resolutions were recorded in the transcript excerpts provided for this meeting.