Snyder called for the state’s Auditor General and the health agency’s inspector general to investigate the problems in Flint and surrounding Genesee County, and they agreed, the state said.
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Gov. Rick Snyder has released more emails from his office’s response to the city’s water crisis. Schuette’s selection of Flood to lead his Flint water investigation also has been criticized by Common Cause in Michigan and Michigan Democratic Party Chairman Brandon Dillon because Flood has been a campaign donor to both Snyder and Schuette. “They have the ability and resources”, Adler said.
Another contract has been signed with Detroit-based Barris, Sott, Denn & Driker, worth up to $400,000, so that three attorneys can serve as special assistant attorneys general, who will provide advice and represent Snyder in federal, state, local and civil probes and lawsuits.
Snyder has apologized for regulatory failures while the city was under state emergency financial management, which led to a decision to not add anti-corrosion chemicals when Flint’s water source was switched from a Detroit-area system to the Flint River in 2014.
As The Detroit News reported last month, a MI health official delayed public notification of Legionnaires’ cases by issuing a June report declaring the outbreak “over”, an assertion Genesee County health officials fought.
The release of these latest batches of emails is in addition to the release of Snyder’s Flint-related emails on January 20 and the initial release of the Executive Office’s Flint-related emails on February 26. “I need time to adequately train additional staff and to update our monitoring plans before I will feel we are ready”.
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The release also includes agendas the governor and his staff have set for meetings when the Flint water issue was discussed.
