emergency manager

A search for a person that will be responsible for the day-to-day management of the City of Flint is about to get underway. Emergency Manager Darnell Earley told Flint City Council that "the position I will be advertising for will be a city manager" and "it is my intent to begin that process in the next two weeks...

The City of Flint is making progress but is still in "an on-going financial emergency" according to Emergency Manager Darnell Earley in his quarterly report to the state treasury. ABC 12 says that Earley also talked about the future impact of retiree health care costs saying "if, by the end of FY17 the City of Flint does not receive some relief from retiree health care cost, either

People who are keeping chickens in Flint and Detroit are facing efforts from local governments to get rid of them. NBC 25 says that some are keeping the chickens as a way to teach their children where food comes from. Others are in response to the growing interest in urban agriculture. Eit...

Flint Emergency Manager Darnell Earley is giving City Council more time to make recommendations before adopting the next fiscal year budget. According to ABC 12, Earley made the comments during a press briefing on Thursday morning. Earley and staff have also taken some recommendations into account...

At Monday night's Flint City Council meeting, residents got their chance to speak on Emergency Manager Darnell Earley's proposed budget. The two year budget proposal includes cuts of 36 police department jobs and 19 firefighter positions. According to ABC 12, the budget also calls for increased fees for trash and street lighting...

Flint Mayor Dayne Walling will oversee the day-to-day operations of two city departments beginning July 1st. According to MLive, Earley told the City Council in a letter that Walling would begin overseeing the departments of Planning and Development and Public Works...

Flint Emergency Manager Darnell Earley has filed notice of his intent to hire a public safety consultant to look at the Flint Police and Fire Department operations. MLive says Earley signed a resolution authorizing an $85,100 contract with the International City/County Management Association's Center for Public Safety for the study which will be funded by the state and the Charles Stewart Mott Fou

The City of Flint's Blue Ribbon Committee on Governance's last public forum will be held tonight from 6 to 8 p.m. The meeting will be held at the Insight Institute of Neurosurgery and Neuroscience on S.Saginaw Street near Hemphill Road, in the auditorium accesses through the glass atrium near the Hemphill Road entrance...

During a five-and-a-half hour meeting on Tuesday night, Flint Police Chief James Tolbert and Fire Chief Dave Cox Jr presented options to the Flint City Council finance committee that would help avoid cuts and layoffs to their departments. According to ABC 12, Flint Fire Chief Dave Cox Jr made his pitch first and said even with the recent loss of a SAFER grant, he thinks reorganizing the department

The emergency manager appointed Blue Ribbon Commitee on Governance held the first of their three public workshops on Saturday morning, and after complaints about the committee meeting in private, turnout was low said residents in attendance...