Detroit is now under a State-mandated Consent Agreement and may even have an EMF. As I am a businessman, like Mr. Snyder, when someone pitches me, or I them, it is standard procedure to establish baseline benchmarks of how thing are performing now to be measured against in the future.

With that in mind what do you think should be the measurements to which the State should be held accountable, say one year from now?

For instance I read that there are some 80,000 streetlights of which 40 per cent don't work. Is it fair to expect to see that improved to a 20 per cent failure rate 12 months from now?

What do you think the benchmarks should be and how much should they improve to be considered a success?