Thomas Saxton

Chief Deputy Treasurer at Department of Treasury / Treasury

Also known as Saxton, Tom

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Flint Water infrastructure funding options

We've been asked to put together a couple of pages for the Governor on financing options for pipe replacement in Flint Let’s assume a $100m project 1 found the 1/19 document titled “water infrastructure improvements...” It’s a good start What I need is a memo that lays out the options for the Gov (1) SRO—basically just incorporate John’s SRO Federal government proposal (2) G.O options—CMI, GLWQ (quality of life bonds doesn’t seem big enough to mention) (3) Revenue bonds—bottle deposit, etc Are there other options we should discuss? Non-state dollars? 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(T reasury)

Re: Flint Billing cycle date

From
Ken Osborne
> > I've expressed the potential scenario that we need to cover periods beyond April. Rep Poleski feels pretty strongly that he wants to force the administration to revisit the issue with the legislature at that time. His sense is they want the language to serve as pressure on state government to get this resolved. > > 1am hanging out in committee to catch Chairman Pscholka after and see if he has the same view. > > Will update after | talk with him. > > Sent from my iPhone >

Re: Flint Billing cycle date

To
Unknown recipient
>> >> | would agree with Nick. Particularly given we don't have a firm schedule yet on the software changes, etc we need to make to the billing system. >>

RE: Flint Billing cycle date

xxxEND_PAGE:treasury01_b39_6977_7316_139 >> >> >> >> Either way, we are still left with a possible situation where we are through April, only spend $25m, and the water still isn't safe >> >> Would we have to stop? Wouldn't we want to spend the last $5m on May bills? >> >> How about saying something like "program continues until either the water is determined safe, or $30m is spent, whichever is first" >> >> >> >> -----Original Message——

Flint Billing cycle date

From
Ken Osborne
>> >> >> Is there a way to find out what day of the month their billing cycles end on? >> >> Committee is still going, but | talked to Rep Poleski and feels pretty strongly about having an end date as his language contemplates. >> >> It would mean that bills containing April 14th would be the last bills covered. >> >> If the bill covers April 4- May 4 for example | think this would meet the April 2014 to April 2016 goal. If the last bill covered March 15- April 15th, there would be a two week portion of April not covered. >> >> Sent from my iPhone xxxEND_PAGE:treasury01_b39_6977_7316_140 Sampson, Jeremy (TREASURY)

updated Flint comments

From
Larry Steckelberg
Al Mooney seems to be diligently working the system. | have highlighted several updates from the City. We should talk in the morning before you meet with the Governor to review the issues. In addition, Jady may be meeting with the Mayor later this evening to discuss a couple of issues so | may have more updates. Larry xxxEND_PAGE:treasury01_b39_6977_7316_118 Flint Water Bill Relief-Top Implementation Issues Project Scope The Flint Water Bill Relief Project will distribute an appropriated amount of state funds to the tustomers of the City of Flint water system. The Project will focus on overcoming implementation hurdles, distributing the funds using equitable principles defined in the appropriation legislation and administrative guidelines, and provide detaited reporting to ensure accountability for all the funds received. ( Commented Pa ae tel ar Significant Challenges in Implementing Water Bill Relief *® Communications o Develop a plan which will include media notices, targeted mallings, web-based communications, and/or other communique. Commented [AM2}: Sight revision with added details far o Engage a point person to handle the plan to relieve strain on city staff. joan © BSA software-bullding credit generator and modeling relief Commented [AM3]: Note sever! entries have hart slight oCan the BSA software handle the relief as proposed? oBSA Is at work defining the project scope of the necessary changes. oNeed to also mode! relief on all or a portion of the water service and water commodity penalties. ° Need to tighten timeline for pout the credit senerator. oA date range ‘delimiter will be used to reduce the data set and define the records to integrate into the rellef process. oThe system changes should include the ability to create comprehensive reporting and provide a complete audit trail of all expenditures for water bill relief. BSA preliminarily has provided for d rate of $150/hour for the software modificationg fa ets) J rate testuced d fom their ; tate: charged) and ey © Timeline for relief oGiven the early stage of the defining the project scope, early April is the best placeholder date for when the software modifications will be available following development, testing, and finalization of the relief program. | Commented [AM4): Stight revision with aided detalls for Uighly dependent on the software changes managing the exception emg ceriication, fenr presented b 24,494 Pre-Ruling Balance recotds and 3,531 water/sewer balanced Can rellef be “fully provided by the deadline in the statute? Michigan Department of Treasury February 19, 2016 xxxEND_PAGE:treasury01_b39_6977_7316_119 How the credits are applied o Need to show the sewer bill on future months to make clear that relief was provided for the water bill. oRelief will be provided on active accounts In the form of credits on water bills, not refunds. oCan the 65/20 relief be provided on penalties or-ean-penalties be-waived-aitegether. Need to have this modeled In the credit generator to make sure it fits within the $30 million? Updating customer information prior to running the credit generator oDelinquent accounts that were on the lien list for 2015 need to be restored in the system (i.e. 3,531 water/sewer balances). offhose billings that are now collectible after Shears v. City of Flint amended brelminany Injunction order need to be moved back onto customer account history the statis of the settlement of the lawsuits? Commercial accounts that are residential dwellings o Should commercial accounts that are residential dwellings (4 or more units) receive 65 or 20 relief? o How can we be sure the resident received the relief rather than have the relief be kept by the owner? How many are there? oCan the credit generator model this relief to ensure it fits within the $30 million? Handling starts o The credit generator needs to calculate relief to ensure those starting service after April 2014 get the proper credits. |A determination needs to be made as to the specific start date for credit allocations after the April 24, 2014 Flint River cutover date (i.e. at what point was Detrolt’s treated water no longer reaching taps). As_ noted in our discussion by phone on 2/13, this Is not a hurdle. The generator should be more than capable of handling all accounts with activity during the designated period whether active or inactive and regardless of the start/stop date. Handling stops o Targeting relief If a customer has changed residences but is still a customer. o Targeting relief to other bills owed to the city by the customer o Development of a hierarchy for which balances get paid In what order from the rellef credits if funds are available after 100% of the water relief has been provided for the account {L.e. the sewer charges for the account owed to the city, the water/sewer Michigan Department of Treasury February 19, 2016 Commented [AM5}: Tha concept of walving all penalties should be jettisoned as it will become it creates programmatic and policy issues we want to avold, Commented UL6];: Lenguage regarding lien needs tobe | updated to more seeurately communicate delinquency year | of origin and tax year, Commented [AMI]; Updated to reflect the one year In question and added # of records. Commented [AM8): Updated to reflect the @ of records and # of payments made on the Pre-Ruling Balances to mid- February, Commented [JL9]: This 's active litigation. The City must defer to its Counsel on any disclosures. Commented [AM20]: Note the added detail on defining the Initlal dete th use ~there should be separate dates for different districts. A matrix will need to he developed to adjust far the lag time between when meters are read end when the bill calculation routine is processed for the billing district. [four water service staff belleves a billing period included any Flint River source water, the billing district will be granted the entire credit for the period in question. xxxEND_PAGE:treasury01_b39_6977_7316_120 charges owed on another account by the same customer, the water/sewer charges owed by the same customer at Genesee County). o There may need to be an effort to find customers that have left the system to issue a refund. Policy alsa needs to be designed in such a way that prevents or limits the number of customers who intentionally close an account to prompt the refund process and reopen immediately in the same or related party's name. * Lega! agreement with relief to forestall future claims o Local officials need to decide If they need or want to pursue a legal agreement with the customers as part of the relief. This would be an agreement that the customer accepts the relief and foreswears any other claims to rellef on their water bills. ® Payments to city OAs the city provides relief, the state will provide funds to the city. oA thorough audit trail is necessary. This might require the city to engage an outside firm to document all expenditures and create an audit trail, © DHHS clients olf DHHS paid the water bill, the customer should only get relief for that portion they paid. Can the credit generator handle this? have paid on behalf of a water customer Is anproximate of the total credi Michigan Department of Treasury February 19, 2016 As discussed in the meeting held on 2/12, this point may be immaterial for inclusion i bry further discussion, Any customer recelving assistance from DHS is limited to $179 process by which credit balances on Inactive eccounts wil Commented {AMI}: Further definition is needed on the be managed. requested to describe the potential waiver of claina ' Commented 1112}; input by the City's legal counsel is | discussed at previous meetings. " Commented [L13I: State and City must discuss the _tmpact of timing of disbursement from tha State to City. xxxEND_PAGE:treasury01_b39_6977_7316_121 Stanton, Terry A. (T Treasury)

Flint Police and Fire Chiefs

To
Thomas Saxton , Larry Steckelberg
importance: High See below the link to a Flint Journal article about the firing of the Police and Fire chiefs. The last paragraph refers to an interim Police chief. If accurate, it may be advisable for us to remind the Mayor that per the terms of the RTAB resolution she cannot name even an interim replacement without first submitting to the RTAB the minimum professional or occupational qualifications and the minimum/maximum salary range for the vacated positions. h xxxEND_PAGE:treasury01_b39_6977_7316_069 Osborne, Ken (TREASURY)

Flint Supplemental

Please see the attached document. xxxEND_PAGE:treasury01_b39_6977_7316_061 Department of Environmental Quality Flint Funding February 11, 2016 2016 Budget Supplemental 1: PA 143 of 2015 City of Flint Emergency Water Services * $ 6,000,000 Drinking Water and Environmental Health Staff 2 $ 300,000 Laboratory Services $ 1,000,000 Supplemental 1 Total $ 7,300,000 Supplemental 2: PA 3 of 2016 Water System Infrastructure Needs $ 2,000,000 Utility Payment Relief $ 3,000,000 Lab and Testing Costs $ 250,000 Corrosion Control Procedures $ 36,500 Infrastructure Integrity Study $ 500,000 Supplemental 2 Total $ 5,786,500 Supplemental 3: TBD City of Flint Water Bill Relief $ 30,000,000 Utility Assistance $ 25,000,000 City of Flint Emergency Water Services (Jul - Sept) $ 3,900,000 Water System Needs (KWA) $ 2,200,000 Response Team $ 2,250,000 Supplemental 3 Total $ 63,350,000 Total 2016 Supplemental Funding for DEQ $ 76,436,500 2017 Budget City of Flint Emergency Water Services (Oct - Dec) $ 3,900,000 Drinking Water Technical Expertise 10 $ 1,500,000 Total 2017 General Fund Request for DEQ $ 5,400,000 * The DEQ paid $6 million to the City of Flint for water connection services through June 2016. The total cost for the connection services was $12 million of which the Mott Foundation paid $4 million and the City of Flint paid $2 million State of Michigan Totals Supplemental 1 - PA 143 of 2015 $ 9,350,100 Supplemental 2 - PA 3 of 2016 $ 28,028,500 Supplemental 3 - As Introduced $ 156,690,000 2017 Budget - As Introduced $ 38,730,900 Total State of Michigan Funding for Flint $ 232,799,500 xxxEND_PAGE:treasury01_b39_6977_7316_062 Stanton, Terry A. (1 reasury)

Karegnondi Water Authority OS

There have been two deals for KWA. The first deal was done in 2013 by Genesee county at $35 million to finance the intake at Lake Huron. The other deal was done by KWA with Genesee, Lapeer and Sanilac Counties in 2014 at $220.5 million. The team on both deals were Miller as Bond Counsel with Dickson Wright as Underwriters Counsel. Stauder who is now with PFM was FA. [ believe they are currently working on a S60 million deal as well. Let me know if you need anything else. Thanks John xxxEND_PAGE:treasury01_b39_6977_7316_047 Stanton, Terry A. (T reasury)

Flint Water Credit Supplemental

From
Ken Osborne
{ met with Rep. Poleski during House Session today. He is working on boilerplate to provide some additional guidance/ audit requirements for the money appropriated for credits. Will share the language when | get it, likely this afternoon or tomorrow. The plan is for the bill to be up in House Appropriations next Wednesday at 9 a.m. How do we want to handle that? Nick, do you want to testify? If Howard and | are to cover it we'll need to spend some time getting a better understanding of the details. Michelle Lange and Scott Starr were also present for the meeting, | told them we would coordinate with them, and DEQ for purposes of the hearing next week. About how we want to handle next week. But from my conversations with staff and members | think Treasury wil! be the subject of most of the questions on this. Finally, Rep. Poleski has been looking at the financial statements for the Flint water system and noted that water and sewer were accounted for separately. | know this came up in our previous meeting with house staff, but he was very interested whether bills were also segregated between water and sewer and whether we could ensure that credits were authorized only for the water portion of the bills. Ken Osborne Legislative Liaison Department of Treasury Desk: 517-241-2474 Cell: 517-388-0968 xxxEND_PAGE:treasury01_b39_6977_7316_041 Robert, Carla M. (T Treasury)

Re: emergency managers

| would agree schools are more challenging because of the ‘academic side’ and the way they are funded... While it may be a pretty low bar in terms of gauging success | would say Muskegon Hts & HPS could be mentioned... The schools have stabilized. There was not the disruption associated with a dissolution. There is community support. The reason we have had to keep EMs place is somewhat tied to the fact they are psa districts. Pontiac schools has beena ‘success’. Again, when we first got involved they were a week or two from making payroll. That situation involves a consent agreement not a EM. The ‘jury’ is still out om BHS. DPS is in a category by itself.

RE: emergency managers

Not in my view. The school districts that have had EFMs/EMs (Detroit, Highland Park, Inkster, and Muskegon Heights) have not fared well. Inkster was dissolved and the other school districts have had multiple EMs. Prior to 2011, I would have said the reason was that Act 72 drew an artificial distinction between fiscal matters and instruction/academics and granted EFMs authority only over the former. However, under both Acts 4 and 436, EMs have had control over both fiscal matters and 1 xxxEND_PAGE:treasury01_b38_6783_6976_164 instruction/academics and it appears to have made little difference in regards to lack of long-term success. It may be that because school finances are tied so closely to enrollments, that once enrollments begin a downward spiral, even an EM cannot cut enough, or quickly enough, to keep up.

RE: emergency managers

Here are three possibilities: 1, Village of Three Oaks. The EFM was appointed on December 1, 2008 and exited after only one year. The EFM resolved all financial issues (including cash flow and accounts payable), while working cooperatively with local officials. Indeed, so positive was the working relationship between the EFM and Village officials that for a number of years after the EFM’s departure, Village officials invited her back for annual events. City of Detroit. The EM was appointed on March 25. 2013 and was succeeded by a FRC on December 9, 2014, after guiding the City through the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S, history in only 18 months. In doing so, the EM addressed three primary issues: first, a cash crisis that was projected to reach a cumulative deficit in excess of $100.0 million by June 30, 2013; second, recurring general fund deficits (the City had not experienced a positive year-end fund balance since fiscal year 2004); and third, long-term liabilities, including unfunded actuarial accrued pension liabilities and other post-employment benefits, that exceeded approximately $14 billion as of June 30, 2012. City of Hamtramck. The EM was appointed on July 1, 2013 and was succeeded by an RTAB on December 18, 2014. The EM addressed general fund operating deficits. In addition, unfunded liabilities (pension and other post-employment benefits) posed significant obstacles to long-term fiscal health. Actuarial evaluation had indicated the pension plan had $98.4 million in actuarial accrued liabilities, but only $55.8 million in pension assets (i.e., a funding ratio of only 56.8 percent). Fred xxxEND_PAGE:treasury01_b38_6783_6976_165

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