Sentences with phrase «elma emergency manager»

When the collection of major works housed at the city's world - class Detroit Institute of Arts Museum was in danger of being liquidated to pay off municipal debt, the federal mediator, Judge Gerald Rosen, city emergency manager, Kevyn Orr, and other civic leaders leaned heavily on community and national foundations, lawmakers and the museum itself to put their money where their masterpieces were.

Despite its well - known municipal dysfunction, political corruption and financial disarray (the state of Michigan assigned an emergency manager in July who sought bankruptcy protection after the city's debt rose to $ 18 billion), there are many encouraging signs that the city can rebuild.

Kevyn Orr, the attorney who managed Chrysler's 2009 bankruptcy, is reportedly Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder's top pick to be Detroit's financial emergency manager.

Attending Rhodes» ruling were Detroit's state - appointed emergency manager, Kevyn Orr, who took Michigan's biggest city to bankruptcy court, and Mayor Mike Duggan, who is now tasked with carrying out the plan.

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder appointed Kevyn Orr as emergency manager in March 2013, giving him extraordinary authority to fix the city's finances.

Detroit must dig itself out of the hole it created and can not wait to see if the federal government will come to its rescue, the city's emergency manager said on Sunday.

Emergency manager Kevyn Orr, who took Detroit into bankruptcy, says the city will be on a «little bit of a diet for a while.»

He engineered a state takeover of the perpetually troubled city of Detroit, installing a hand - picked emergency manager who quickly filed the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.

Detroit Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr addresses the media about the ruling on the Detroit municipal bankruptcy while Michigan Governor Rick Snyder (L) listens during a news conference in the Theodore J. Levin U.S. Courthouse in Detroit, Michigan, November 7, 2014.

And electricity may not be restored fully in Puerto Rico and the USVI until May, since emergency managers are still reeling from the devastation across the United States in 2017, spreading thin reconstruction supplies like utility poles and power lines across all disaster areas spanning from California to Florida.

Snyder's decision allowed Detroit Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr to make a filing under Chapter 9 of the federal bankruptcy law.

DETROIT - Gov. Rick Snyder today authorized Detroit's emergency manager to seek federal bankruptcy protection for the city, saying it was the only viable option to provide the 700,000 people of Detroit with the public services they need and to restore the city.

Flint's former mayor and the city's former emergency manager testified that they were not aware of lead in the water until January 2015.

This allowed emergency managers and leaders to make critical decisions around evacuation orders and readying supplies that undoubtedly saved many lives.

Detroit has reached a settlement with bond insurers over the treatment of some bonds in the city's bankruptcy, Detroit emergency manager Kevyn Orr told CNBC Wednesday.

At 4 am, about half of the customers for the island's only utility company, known as PREPA, had no power, according to the island's emergency manager.

The emergency manager has the authority to change labor contracts, sell assets and recommend bankruptcy.

Christian Aid's regional emergency manager, Dipankar Patnaik, said: «India's eastern coast and neighbouring Bangladesh are routinely hit by severe storms between April and November.

The contamination could have started as early as April 2014 when an emergency manager decided to cut costs by making the Flint River the city's water source.

The emergency manager will have discretion over the full $ 550 million, but also over any city funds used to abate public health hazards.

More recently, Detroit has been under the financial supervision of an Emergency Manager, who was appointed by the state's Repubilcan Governer to help the cash strapped city.

Niagara County Emergency Manager John Schultz says the birds are adapting to their surroundings and should be left alone.

Poloncarz said he recommended the boil water advisory after extensive, consensus - driven discussions with representatives from the Health Department, Office of Emergency Services, emergency managers in affected towns and in consultation with Water Authority engineers.

Gov. Cuomo signed an executive order Monday creating a new independent emergency manager who will oversee much - needed upgrades of public housing.

Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services Commissioner John Melville said, «We are in regular contact with County Emergency Managers in the area to discuss planning and operations for additional state assets to the region.

This has local leaders like Godfrey, Orleans County Legislator Lynne Johnson and the counties» emergency managers on alert.

This bankruptcy has been imposed by the Michigan GOP Gov. Snyder; and his dictated emergency manager.

Besides the $ 5 million, New York is committing a team of emergency managers from various agencies to work out of Manhattan, the Meadowlands sports complex and other points in New Jersey, according to a state official.

Long's comment came after Rep. Jeanette Nunez, a Miami Republican who oversaw the state House's response to Hurricane Irma, encouraged emergency managers to keep pushing for storm hardening projects.

Less than an hour before superstorm Sandy made landfall, Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano made a final trip to the Long Beach boardwalk to huddle with his emergency managers.

«I had a meeting with the 13 sheriffs and emergency managers from the surrounding counties,» said Walsh.

Known as National Planning Scenario 1 (NPS1), that nuclear attack story line originated in the 1950s as a kind of war game, a safe way for national security officials and emergency managers to test their response plans before having to face the real thing.

Emergency managers who were formerly used to one - directional dissemination of information to the population are now exposed to vast amounts of information, originating from the public and typically before formal notifications.

For example, the model suggests that right after the strike, emergency managers should expect to see some people rushing toward ground zero, jamming the roads in a frantic effort to pick up children from school or find missing spouses.

The authors» goal is to sound a «wake up call» that they hope will lead to an improved understanding of how warnings are formulated and implemented across hazards, which in turn could lead to improved training methods, warning system innovations, and synergy between researchers and practicing emergency managers.

He notes how Hurricane Harvey, for example, strengthened suddenly to become a Category 4 storm right before it made landfall in Texas, offering emergency managers little time to issue warnings.

«These results are important for operational weather forecasters and emergency managers,» says Nick Anderson, program director in the National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences, which funded the research.

«The unfortunate thing is that with more and more extreme events, we are being requested with increasing frequency by emergency managers, by citizens, by the business community, by farmers... for more information on climate - scale events, which we define as anything beyond 14 days,» Lubchenco said.

At the NWS office, Smith and his colleagues worked feverishly to make sure the local population was warned, taking to Twitter, working with local media, and briefing emergency managers around central Oklahoma, which looked to be the bull's - eye.

During the hurricane and in immediate aftermath, we had radio to our local emergency managers, but we could not reach the eastern side of the island.

Washington and Oregon based the goals, objectives and activities in the strategy on input from more than 100 state, tribal, local emergency managers and more than 300 community members, including many who have had training as part of Community Emergency Response Teams.

Detroit parents still have very few high - quality options, despite a number of different reform interventions, including putting a state - appointed emergency manager in charge of the district, pulling the lowest - performing schools into a statewide turnaround district, and allowing a significant number of charter schools to operate.

DPS is also challenged to attract talent thanks to a 10 percent salary concession the emergency manager has put in place as a result of the district's extreme financial deficit.

During the negotiations, the DPS interim emergency manager said, «It will be more challenging for DPS to succeed without some kind of control over the opening of new charter schools or other kinds of educational opportunities.»

Roberts brings decades of managerial, financial, and organizational experience to his roles as the emergency manager of the Detroit Public Schools and the board chairman of the Education Achievement Authority of Michigan.

That's when the district's newly appointed Emergency Manager Don Weatherspoon said the district couldn't afford to open school in the fall.

Muskegon Heights schools» emergency manager set up the charter system in the summer of 2012, when the existing district couldn't afford to open.

The Detroit Public Schools emergency manager has unveiled plans that allow 10 schools to self - govern and put the services of the district's central office for sale for charter schools and others in the area, the Detroit Free Press reports.

Joyce Parker, the district's second emergency manager, split the district into two.

Including city takeovers, half of Michigan's African - American population has been under an emergency manager at some point in the past six years.