Kincaid v. City of Flint

Plaintiffs, all residents of defendant the city of Flint, appeal as of right the order of the circuit court granting defendant’s motion for summary disposition and denying plaintiffs’ motion to amend their complaint. We reverse and remand.

I. BACKGROUND

On August 15, 2011, defendant’s finance director, Michael Townsend, sent to the city council and mayor a notice of a proposed 35% water and sewer rate increase to be effective September 6, 2011. The increase was proposed to meet a projected fiscal year deficit in the sewer fund of $14,789,666 as well as a water fund deficit of $8,078,917. The…