Wayne County officials acknowledge they may have wasted millions paying a contractor to implement a software program now years behind schedule and budgeted to cost nearly twice what officials first planned.
Wayne County hires private accounting firm to build 2022 budget
Detroit Wayne County will contract with the Rehmann Group, a Troy-based financial services firm, to prepare the county s 2022 budget.
The $350,000, six-month contract was approved unanimously Thursday by the Wayne County Commission, meaning a private firm will oversee the $1.5 billion budget of Michigan s most populous county.
The position of budget director has been vacant since January 2020, when then-director Kevin Haney retired.
Haney returned to get the county through the 2020-21 budget cycle after the pandemic began but has officially retired now.
The county has had some swings and misses on prospective budget directors, leaving the position unfilled going into budget season, Chief Financial Officer Hughey Newsome told a commission committee in March.
Lansing’s former chief strategy officer named Flint CFO
Updated Feb 25, 2021;
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FLINT, MI Shelbi Frayer, the city of Lansing’s former chief strategy officer, has been named Flint’s new chief financial officer.
Mayor Sheldon Neeley announced the hiring Wednesday, Feb. 24, and said Fraser has already begun work as interim CFO in advance of her appointment, which will be reviewed by the Flint City Council.
“We are so pleased to have Shelbi Frayer join our team. Her leadership, expertise, and eagle-eye toward savings are exactly what the city of Flint needs,” Neeley said in a statement issued by the city. “With her extensive knowledge, the city of Flint will tackle its financial challenges and continue to move forward in a positive direction.”
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