GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Grand Rapids’ chief financial officer says the idea to downsize the comptroller’s office began early in the summer of 2024, prompted at least in part by allegations of mismanagement within the office. That would have been before two police investigations were set in motion by Comptroller Max Frantz.
In a Target 8 investigation, Frantz suggested city leaders gutted his office as a retaliatory measure because of the probes. City Manager Mark Washington on Tuesday flatly denied that.
“Any implication that my actions were in some way retaliatory are simply false,” Washington wrote in a statement sent to News 8 Tuesday night…