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Wayne County Executive Warren Evans, 72, is planning to seek a third four-year term in 2022.
Six years ago, Wayne County Executive Warren Evans was whistling by the graveyard of municipal bankruptcy when he took over on the 31st floor of the Guardian Building.
The former county sheriff inherited a $52 million annual structural deficit from his predecessor Bob Ficano, the county s credit rating was junk-bond status and there was a rusting half-built downtown Detroit jail project that had already burned up $150 million of taxpayer money before Ficano pulled the plug on the project.
Related Article I heard everybody saying, Well, they ll use Detroit s playbook and they ll file for bankruptcy and blah, blah, blah, Evans said last week in a wide-ranging interview with Crain s in his Guardian Building office. There was just no truth in budgeting at all. I mean, it was all a shell game.
Metro Airport s North Terminal to be renamed after County Exec Evans
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