If your list of important, tought chores seems lengthy, imagine what's on emergency financial manager Kevin Orr's agenda.
During a series of media office visits, he gives journalists a sense of what's on deck.
Here's some of what Kirk Pinho, Dustin Walsh and their bosses at Crain's Detroit Business heard:
Kevyn Orr, Detroit emergency financial managerHe will focus both on quick fixes -- like improving police response times and fixing streetlights -- and urgent financial matters like restructuring the city's long-term debt and stopping budget deficits. . . .
"You want to bring all the data and information together and start developing . . . next steps as far as what you need to do. That process can occur pretty quickly."
The Crain's article notes that Orr "is expected to immediately reopen the city's more than $8 billion in pension and retiree health care liabilities for negotiation." All the governor's appointee says about that is: "Everything is on the table, everything's possible."
Among items theoretically on bthe table is a city council pay cut, though Orr tells The Detroit News editorial board he leans against that step. Council members make $73,181 annually; the council president makes $77,000.
During the sit-down at Crain's, Orr said he wants to work with the council.
"It doesn't do anyone any good to have conflict," he said. "What's the end game of that?"
State law gives Orr 45 days to draft a financial plan for the city.
