Legislation Introduced Would Repeal MI's Emergency Financial Manager Law

[KamaAina]

http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2016/01/27/legislation-introduced-would-repeal-emergency-financial-manager-law/

A House Bill introduced Wednesday would effectively repeal Michigan’s emergency financial manager law.

State Representative and Minority Assistant Floor Leader LaTanya Garrett (D-Detroit) says decision making needs to be returned to the people in the community.

“We need to return decision-making in our communities to the elected officials that residents voted into office,” said Garrett. “An emergency financial manager is an unelected official who is not accountable to residents, and that is simply undemocratic.”

The current law allows the governor to appoint an emergency financial manager to have control of a local government’s finances when they believe a city is having financial difficulties.

[Wounded Bear]

1. Yep...

about time to reverse some of the RW-based, ALEC propagated bullshit.