In Benton Harbor Michigan

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44. You are right, sorry. Hamtramck is 53% white.

The system you were under was an emergency financial manager who's powers were limited to finance planning. In 2007 it was deemed his job was finished and he left. Now you are facing a new emergency manager with far more powers but that decision has yet to be made.

See here: It is also important to know how these emergency managers came to be. Michigan has had an emergency management system since 1988, due to Public Act 101 which “allowed an emergency financial manager to assess and manage the finances of Hamtramck.”[8] Public Act 101 gained greater strength in 1990 via Public Act 72[9], which allowed the state government to appoint emergency financial managers to towns which were having financial troubles. Yet, the modern-day emergency manager came about in 2011 when Public Act 4[10] not only gave emergency managers full-range of a town’s finances, but also surpassed and overrode Public Acts 101 and 72. It is in Public Act 4 that the EMs truly came to embody the technocratic like governments found in Europe.

I'm sorry if I misrepresented your town, at least the first type worked for you!