Sauger had a “long and productive life” and “helped change the lives of so many for the better through things such as his service in law enforcement and as a county commissioner representing the neighborhood where I grew up in Warren,” county board Chair Don Brown said.
The Macomb County Board of Commissioners voted to override four vetoes and “budget administration notices” for the 2024 budget by County Executive Mark Hackel, including one that involves an ongoing legal dispute over the commission’s access to financial data. The full board voted 12-1 at its meeting Thursday to override Hackel’s vetoes of two spending […]
The county Board of Commissioners’ Finance, Budget and Audit Committee conducted its annual meeting to add or subtract expenditures from the proposed $322-million 2024 budget proposed by County Executive Mark Hackel before final approval of the $1.1 total billion budget next Monday.
The judges in a 14-page opinion say the Mark Hackel administration is following the county charter and state law by limiting the board’s ongoing access to the data and providing quarterly reports to the board.