132 Cities, 26 Townships and 16 Villages Eligible for Takeover Under Snyder’s Financial Martial Law
Please note that the criteria were farmed from an old law, PA 346 of 1966. Yes, 1966. Now, I could be wrong, but I’m pretty sure that in the past, these criteria were used to not only help struggling communities, but to enable enterprise incentives. Why does that matter? Because the criteria definitely were not intended to diagnose a failing municipality, which makes it far more likely that more Michigan municipalities would land on this list than if more appropriate criteria were used.
Political Ruminations last weekend revealed the list of Michigan cities, townships and villages eligible forEmergency Financial Management under Governor Rick Snyder’s highly unpopular EMF law. Even folks close to the situation appear in shock at the number of cities deemed Eligible Distressed Areas, partially because the criteria for such a classification date back to 1966 (!) and partially because some of them are
