Sentences with phrase «financial emergency manager»

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Another six schools are to be closed in June 2011, followed by seven more a year later, emergency financial manager Robert Bobb said.

The state had appointed an emergency financial manager to handle the district's finances.

Roy Roberts, the state - appointed emergency financial manager for the Detroit district, has not determined which of the district's nearly 100 buildings would close.

The emergency manager appointed to put Detroit's troubled public school system on a firmer financial footing said on Thursday he was sending layoff notices to all of the district's 5,466 unionized employees.

More broadly troubling to teachers and education - reform observers, however, was DPS Emergency Financial Manager Robert Bobb's concurrent announcement that he plans to unilaterally modify the Detroit Federation of Teachers» collective bargaining agreement, the first test of a sweeping new state law.

Jennifer Granholm as an emergency financial manager for Detroit Public Schools, making him one of four such officials around the state tasked with pulling underwater school districts out of debt.

The City of Allen Park is the latest to get a state appointed emergency financial manager.

«Detroit's state - appointed emergency manager is painting a bleak financial picture.

«The outcome of this millage will change the future of Muskegon Heights forever,» says a letter the school district's emergency financial manager Don Weatherspoon sent home to parents this week.

Former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D) first appointed an emergency financial manager for Detroit Public Schools in 2009.

In Detroit Public Schools, the Detroit Federation of Teachers threatened to strike when the emergency financial manager called for teacher merit pay and an end to the seniority system.

Robert Bobb (class of 2005), the Emergency Financial Manager of the Detroit Public Schools, recently sent layoff notices to every one of the district's 5,466 salaried employees, including all its teachers, and said that nearly a third of the district's schools would be closed or turned over to private charter operators.

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