Do you think City Council and Mayor Dave Bing know (or care) that the apparent death of the Belle Isle lease deal with the state is the latest manifestation of their demonstrated inability to get anything meaningful done? asks Daniel Howes of the Detroit News.
I'll help: They are, and they're getting closer to the edge every day.
Here we are, somewhere in a municipal purgatory bordered by the potential repeal of the dreaded Emergency Manager Law on one side and the growing prospect of bankruptcy on the other, witnessing the willful mismanagement of a city badly in need of residents, jobs, tax revenue and purposeful leaders coalescing around a plan they can deliver and execute.
But no.
The proposal to make Belle Isle a state park, relieving the city of a financial burden it cannot afford and an operational responsibility it cannot manage? Dead, because Gov. Rick Snyder's bureaucrats purportedly failed to provide "guarantees" or specific details in the out years of a proposed 30-year lease.
