Davis v. City of Detroit Financial Review Team

These consolidated appeals involve the relationship between the Open Meetings Act1 and the Local Government and School District Fiscal Account*574ability Act,2 commonly known as the emergency financial manager act. The central issue in these cases is whether a financial review team that the Governor appoints under § 12(3) of the emergency financial manager act3 is a “public body,” as § 2(a) of the Open Meetings Act4 defines that term. We conclude that a financial review team — and therefore the Detroit Financial Review Team — is not a public body, because it is not a “governing body” as the Open…