FLINT, MI -- Mayor Sheldon Neeley has called for a special City Council meeting on Friday, May 30 -- the fourth straight day a council session has been called for to address a potential budget crisis in Flint.

The city’s charter requires the council to adopt a budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1 no later than Monday, June 2.

Although the council has missed that deadline previously, talks this year over the proposed $68.5-million budget Neeley delivered in March have been at a standstill.

Council members called a special meeting on Thursday, May 29, to address the budget and other issues but only three members -- Ladel Lewis (Ward 2), Judy Priestley (Ward 4) and Candice Mushatt (Ward 7) showed up.

The Neeley administration said in a statement on Friday that consequences for

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