EM spends $5M on consultants

[313WX]

Wait, you really expected him to go through millions of sheets of paper and multiple authorities and organizations all by himself?



That includes the Miller Canfield contract that the City approved.

Ok, so these aren't new contracts. These the ones that we're already passed by City Council for the Milestone Agreement back in December.

[TexasT]

Ok, so these aren't new contracts. These the ones that we're already passed by City Council for the Milestone Agreement back in December.

I can't tell from the language of the article, which is vague. The Crain's article it cites to says

"The following consultants have been hired to help Detroit Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr with Detroit's financial turnaround, Crain's research has found:

• Ernst & Young, Detroit, one year, $600,000

• Conway MacKenzie Inc., Birmingham, one year, $2.1 million

• Miller Buckfire and Co. LLC, New York City, one year, $900,000

• Plante & Moran PLLC, Southfield, two years, $1.1 million

• Miller Canfield Paddock and Stone PLC, Detroit, 18 months, $300,000"

Free Press said in January that City Council hired:

• $250,000 for Milliman of New Jersey to study cost-cutting in retiree health care and pensions.
• $1.8 million for Miller Buckfire of New York to assist the city in improving its investment banking.
• $4.2 million for Conway MacKenzie of Birmingham to provide operational restructuring services.
• $1.2 million for Ernst & Young of Detroit to provide financial restructuring services.

And the famous $300K Miller Canfield contract was one that City Council already hired...to me, it sounds like he is using the resources that City Council already contracted for. That's better than going and getting his own consultants, if so. If not, I don't really have a problem with him hiring experts to assist him...there's literally no way one person could do everything himself. And I don't believe he could have city employees do it for him.