FLINT -- In his latest decision as Flint's Emergency Financial Manager, Mike Brown has restored 60 percent of Mayor Dayne Walling's pay and has laid out a new list of responsibilities for the mayor.
Walling's benefits have also been restored.
Brown also issued Executive Order No. 10 on Tuesday evening, in which he lays out Flint city council's new responsibilities.
City councilmembers will now receive $7,000 a year, or about 30 percent of their previous compensation.
They will meet once a month instead of weekly, but are still responsible for meeting with constituents in their respective wards.
"There's still a role for city council to play and I think the more important role is to allow the public to come and voice their opinion to us on things that are going on in our community, that we can work with the emergency manager to get addressed," said City Council President Scott Kincaid.
Here are the mayor's new duties, as laid out in Executive Order No. 9:
-Focus on job creation, business development, entrepreneur support
-Facilitate economic development prospects and projects with DCED staff
-Develop City of Flint policies and procedures to create positive business climate
-Chairman, City of Flint Economic Development Corporation
-Chairman, City of Flint Downtown Development Authority
-Board Member, Flint Genesee County Visitors & Convention Bureau
-Board Member, Flint Area Enterprise Community
-Operating Board Member, Genesee Regional Chamber of Commerce
-Steering Committee Member, E3 Innovation Network
-Executive Committee Member, Michigan Economic Development Corporation
-Weekly “Jobs” Meeting with GRCC and partners
-Liaison to local business associations and entrepreneur support networks
-Focus on developing a City of Flint Comprehensive Master Plan
-Identify and promote research-based best-practices
-Ensure robust community engagement and citizen participation
-Assist Chief Planning Officer and Planners Roundtable
-Support Community Steering Committee and Stakeholders’ Network
-Integrate Sustainability principles in accordance with US Dept of HUD funding including brownfield redevelopment and environmental quality improvement
-Focus on strengthening relationships with State and Federal government entities
-Identify State and Federal grant, partnership, and resource development opportunities
-Trustee, Karegnondi Water Authority
-Member, Mayor’s Automotive Coalition
-Member, Urban Core Mayors of Michigan (MSU)
-Member, Flint ALPACT (Advocates and Leaders for Police and Community Trust) (US Attorney’s Office and MI Dept of Civil Rights)
-Liaison to State Office of Metropolitan and Urban Affairs,
-Liaison to networks including: Sister Cities, Let’s Move, Cities of Service Coalition
