Mr. Snyder said he expects the emergency manager to stay in place for at least 18 months.
Michigan Governor Rick Snyder appointed an emergency manager at the end of 2011 to run the cash-strapped city.
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In Michigan, six local municipalities are under direct control of an emergency manager.
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In Detroit, the ailing district has been under the control of a state-appointed emergency manager for almost three years.
One of the reasons that emergency manager Kevyn Orr has come in to right the ship in a number of ways.
The emergency manager would be assigned for 18 months, long enough to at least get the city on the right path.
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The city would benefit from a siren system, said Larry Meyerhofer, emergency manager at the L.A. Emergency Management Department, but the cost is high.
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The city owes billions of dollars to creditors and the governor of Michigan has appointed an emergency manager to try to settle the city's finances.
This same Emergency Manager was a graduate from a foundation that promotes corporate school reform and also pays around a third of his six-figure salary.
Elected leaders in Detroit could lose their jobs, but the emergency manager could also retain some of them by setting new salaries and modifying duties.
Meanwhile, this Emergency Manager is likely to come from the upper income bracket, and therefore pay a lower rate of income tax than you are.
Jim Holley of the city's Historic Little Rock Missionary Baptist Church said he didn't expect the emergency manager to be in power for a long time.
The situation is so serious that the State of Michigan government is considering intervening by appointing an emergency manager to take charge of the city's finances.
Early success could be crucial for Orr to win over citizens who are skeptical about whether an emergency manager really is needed, bankruptcy expert Doug Bernstein said.
City leaders, including the mayor and City Council, had opposed an emergency manager, saying they could fix the city themselves, given more time and more resources from the state.
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder has 30 days to decide whether to appoint a city emergency manager to try to save Detroit from the catastrophe presided over by elected officials.
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Now, is it a settled issue that emergency manager Kevyn Orr will, in fact, put this art up for sale, I mean, which has been considered, I think, priceless, really?
Amid all these problems, he acknowledges there's a risk of being unable to solve them, though he insists he will within the 18 months dictated under Michigan's emergency manager law.
Now, that emergency manager, Kevyn Orr, reportedly has his eye on the Detroit Institute of Arts, where the collection includes works by world renowned figures like Matisse, Van Gogh and Rembrandt.
What we have in Detroit is an Emergency Manager appointed by the previous governor who was facing a challenge from the School District which was frustrated by his top-down approach to school reform.
Not only can an emergency manager wipe out collective bargaining agreements, he or she can literally push aside duly elected city officials and prevent them from doing the job they were elected to do.
Kevyn Orr is under no illusions that he'll be treated as a hero when he begins his duties as the Motor City's emergency manager, an appointment that makes Detroit the nation's largest city ever put under state control.
But others, such as Denise Beauregard, a 53-year-old event planner from the city's Rosedale Park neighborhood, said she was so dismayed by the prospect of an emergency manager that she would put her tax payments into escrow until the manager leaves the city.
The emergency financial manager, if Snyder chooses to appoint one, can deal with the mess that exists now.
After months of political bickering and legislative maneuvering, Detroit finally got an emergency financial manager on Thursday.
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Detroit would pose a stiff test for Michigan's emergency-manager system, a controversial tool for municipal overhaul that hasn't had many successes yet.
Robert Bobb, the school district's emergency financial manager, has tried several policies to try to balance the books, including closing 59 schools.
Detroit Emergency Financial Manager Robert Bobb announced last month that he was closing eight schools, and selling up to 45 more to charter companies.
Kilpatrick cannot be blamed for single-handedly driving Detroit into the hands of an emergency financial manager, whom Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder plans to appoint any day.
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In Detroit, a city that has faced decline now for several decades, Emergency Financial Manager Robert Bobb has issued a layoff notice to all 5, 466 public school teachers.
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