Following the application period, public interviews will take place at the board’s May 8 Government Oversight Committee meeting, and the appointment will be made at the May 16 full board meeting.
Hackel objected to the “unorthodoxed” way the budget amendment was approved by “piggybacking” it on an unrelated vote – approval of training and conference funds for the Department of Planning and Economic Development – at the Jan. 23 Public Services Committee meeting.
The board’s Government Oversight Committee voted 7-5 to “table” a resolution that would express opposition to a package of bills in the state Senate and state House of Representatives to establish a statewide $2 per-month fee on water bills to help make water bills more affordable for low-income residents.
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 […]