Sentences with phrase «city 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.
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Michigan law grants emergency financial managers expansive authority, and a law to take effect March 28 will boost those powers, allowing Orr to terminate collective bargaining agreements with the city's 48 unions.
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.
There's a lot on the agenda as Detroit's emergency financial manager tries to meet a deadline to decide whether the city and escape a bankruptcy filing.
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 - 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.
Nearly two years ago, Flint city officials, under the guidance of a state - appointed emergency fiscal manager, switched their city's water supply from Lake Huron to the nearby polluted Flint River.
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.
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.
And most managers are smart enough to finish business in summer and use January for emergencies or get an add on if the club is rich (ie City and Bony).
Cuomo's emergency order for the New York City Housing Authority could be counterproductive to efforts to improve public housing, NYCHA's general manager said.
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.
Last month, Newburgh city manager Michael Ciaravino declared a state of emergency and shut down the city's primary water supply.
City Manager Michael Ciaravino says the state of emergency was declared because of the discovery of Perfluorooctane Sulfonate (PFOS) in Silver Stream and Washington Lake, the main source of drinking water for Newburgh.
Though Anderson doesn't say much about his qualifications for the job or education track record, he describes the heroics of Bobb's current job as emergency financial manager of Detroit's beleaguered schools — Michigan's governor says he «doesn't take any prisoners» and isn't «afraid to make the hard calls» or «fire people» — and notes the coincidence of Bobb's tenure in the Motor City expiring next June, about the same time as Henderson's interim contract ends.
Including city takeovers, half of Michigan's African - American population has been under an emergency manager at some point in the past six years.
In 2012, after Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder put Detroit under emergency management, the manager closed 16 city schools and handed 15 to the Education Achievement Authority, which received millions from the likes of the Kellogg and Gates foundations.
«On Tuesday, Nowling was in New Jersey raking in $ 375 an hour as the spokesman for Atlantic City's new emergency manager, Kevin Lavin.
19) New Jersey: Veteran Republican operative Bill Nowling, who was Detroit Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr's spokesperson, has landed on his feet in Atlantic City, which is under similar pressure to undergo privatizations and cutbacks.
The city's main district is now run by an elected school board after years of control by state - appointed emergency managers.
The City of Allen Park is the latest to get a state appointed emergency financial manager.
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Seven writers from both publications have each selected a work from the collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA), a treasure trove that could inconceivably be sacrificed if Detroit's emergency manager forces a sale of the collection to alleviate some of the city's staggering -LSB-.....]
Seven writers from both publications have each selected a work from the collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA), a treasure trove that could inconceivably be sacrificed if Detroit's emergency manager forces a sale of the collection to alleviate some of the city's staggering debt.
The news follows DIA's battle with the bankrupt city, whose emergency manager had floated the idea of selling off the museum's collection to pay creditors.
Michigan is taking over Detroit's finances and will appoint an emergency manager to deal with the city's massive debt.
Environmental advocates say the city's emergency manager needs to address pollution problems.
The suit, which names a host of official defendants including Darnell Earley (one of the former emergency managers of Flint), Gerald Ambrose (another former emergency manager of Flint), Dayne Walling (former mayor of Flint), the city of Flint, Gov. Snyder, the state of Michigan, the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, and the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, contained allegations that Flint residents» constitutional rights were violated.
Hollowell said the feasibility plan for D - Insurance should be completed this summer and presented to the City Council and Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr for approval.
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