Can Detroit city government get any more dysfunctional?
Nancy Kaffer of the Free Press writes that the bureaucracy continues to be a mess, even under the all-powerful emergency manager.
Detroit emergency manager Kevyn Orr was appointed to balance the city’s woefully tip-tilted books; no less important was Orr’s charge to fix Detroit’s broken bureaucracy.
The former is proceeding apace, in federal bankruptcy court. The latter? So far, it doesn’t seem to be working.
One problem: Bing. It probably wasn't hard to see that one coming.
Kaffer recalls how Orr stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Gov. Rick Snyder and Mayor Dave Bing seven months ago, when Snyder appointed him to the post.
Today:
Bing is sidelined on the org chart, with most of his appointees replaced by Orr’s handpicked staffers. (Bing’s not suffering in silence — he’s been loud and clear that he’s disappointed in Orr’s decisions, and feels the EM has overstepped his bounds.)
