Orr Tells Crowd: 'We Have To Break Our Addiction To Debt' | Crain's Detroit Business

Orr: 'We Have To Break Our Addiction To Debt'
Kevyn Orr, emergency manager for the city of Detroit, speaks at a public meeting at Wayne State University Law School in Detroit, Michigan, U.S., on Monday, June 10, 2013. Whether Detroit careens into the largest U.S. municipal bankruptcy depends on emergency manager Kevyn Orr's convincing creditors during the next two months that his plan will revive a city plagued by deficits, crime and strained services. Photographer: Jeff Kowalsky/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Kevyn Orr, emergency manager for the city of Detroit, speaks at a public meeting at Wayne State University Law School in Detroit, Michigan, U.S., on Monday, June 10, 2013. Whether Detroit careens into the largest U.S. municipal bankruptcy depends on emergency manager Kevyn Orr's convincing creditors during the next two months that his plan will revive a city plagued by deficits, crime and strained services. Photographer: Jeff Kowalsky/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Detroit residents alternately condemned and praised Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr at a public forum he used to drive home the severity of a fiscal crisis that has pushed one of America's biggest cities to the brink of bankruptcy, and to explain his plan to fix it.

One step he plans to take as Detroit's financial overseer is to lease the Belle Isle municipal park to the state to save $6 million a year, Orr said late Monday at the hearing on his roadmap to revival. The City Council rejected a similar proposal from Republican Governor Rick Snyder earlier this year.

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