Sentence examples for emergency manager for from inspiring English sources

Kevyn D. Orr, the emergency manager for Detroit, talks about the city's bankruptcy filing.

Gov. Rick Snyder's administration is expected on Thursday to announce an emergency manager for Detroit.

Flint had an emergency manager for two years, ending in 2004.

The Republican governor's decision to install an emergency manager for the Democratic-controlled city had been widely expected for months.

Earlier this year, Mayor Bing himself had said he would not support an emergency manager for Detroit.

DETROIT — Kevyn Orr, the emergency manager for Detroit, testified Friday that he was not hired by Michigan's governor to lead Detroit into bankruptcy court.

An austerity-minded governor, Rick Snyder, using a controversial new law, appoints emergency managers for a number of the state's poor municipalities, including Flint.

As Detroit, a major American city in financial disarray, braces for what oversight by an emergency manager appointed by the State of Michigan may soon mean, one need look no further than Pontiac, a place that has been guided by emergency managers for the past four years.

Michigan's Public Act 4 grants the governor the power to appoint emergency managers for financially struggling school districts and municipalities.

Michigan has had emergency managers for a while now, but they were given more power by a law, Public Act 4, passed by the Michigan Legislature in March of 2011, shortly after Gov. Snyder took office.

"The state's emergency manager law for managing the city's finances would still be the governing authority if that decision stands," said Keith Mason of the law firm McKenna Long and Aldridge.