Tagged: Pontiac

Not if they follow his plan.

From the Detroit News:

Pontiac is into its third emergency manager, Louis Schimmel, who is scheduled to leave his job this month but first will present a two-year plan to avoid bankruptcy to citizens at a meeting at 9 a.m. at City Hall.

“There is absolutely no reason for bankruptcy in Pontiac if they take advantage of all that I have done and follow the blueprint I am leaving,” Schimmel said.

Tell that to Hamtramck. That city is facing another financial crisis, and Schimmel was once the emergency financial manager there.

DETROIT (AP) - Leaders of the Detroit branch of the NAACP say they'll file a lawsuit next week challenging Michigan's emergency manager law.

The law has allowed Gov. Rick Snyder to put managers in Detroit and other struggling cities and school districts. Critics plan to talk Monday outside the federal courthouse in Detroit.

Other legal challenges have not been successful. An Ingham County judge in April threw out a lawsuit that claimed lawmakers violated the Open Meetings Act when it approved the bill in December.