Detroit Mayor Dave Bing has had enough.
Bing will not challenge Gov. Rick Snyder's plan to install an emergency financial manager in Detroit.
"Whether we like it or not, an emergency financial manger is coming to Detroit," the mayor says in a statement posted by the city Wednesday afternoon.
His announcement comes after the City Council earlier in the afternoon voted 7-1 to send a letter informing the state it planned to challenge the emergency manager concept at a hearing on Tuesday in Lansing.
In a statement, Bing said:
I, like the Council, categorically disagree with that assertion.
However, when it became clear to me that the Council wanted to go further and request a hearing to appeal the pending appointment of an Emergency Manager or request an enhanced consent agreement — I decided that the fighting must stop now.
We need to end the drama and in-fighting and understand that whether we like it or not, an Emergency Financial Manager is coming to Detroit. Although I continue to be opposed to the appointment of an Emergency Financial Manager, I must be realistic in accepting the fact that the Governor more than likely will appoint an EFM.
We need to spend our time working with the State and the EFM to move our key initiatives forward, which are designed to improve public services and the overall quality of life for the citizens of our City. We must focus on working together so that we can remove the need for anEmergency Manager in the required 18 months or otherwise it will be a more elongated and painful process.
