It has been harder than it seems like it ought to be to learn the name of the Flint, Michigan Emergency Manager who decided to save money by switching Flint's water supply. The switch was made to stop drawing treated water from Lake Huron via Detroit in about April, 2014, so as to draw from what is certainly now known as the polluted, untreated Flint River instead. (Whether it was known at the time is the subject of some litigation.) Flint's Emergency Manager was appointed by Michigan's Republican Governor, Rick Snyder, to save money, as you know.
The Detroit Free Press identified the Emergency Manager at the time of the switch: Mr. Darnell Earley.
Mr. Earley is no longer Flint's Emergency Manager.
Last January he was appointed the Emergency Manager of Detroit Public Schools by Michigan's Governor Snyder. Paul Egan, "Is Emergency Manager Law to Blame for Flint Water Crisis?" (Detroit Free Press Online, posted October 25, 2015).
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