Royal Oak

City commissioner files letter to rescind resignation

By Jeremy Carroll
C & G Staff Writer

ROYAL OAK — Saying he’s received dozens of phone calls and e-mails from neighbors, supporters and people he doesn’t even know asking him to reconsider his resignation from the City Commission, Stephen Miller has turned in a letter to the city rescinding his June 3 resignation.

The letter was handed over to the city clerk on June 9, and City Attorney Dave Gillam is looking into the legality of the resignation rescission letter.

“We are in the process of taking a look at it,” Gillam said on June 10. “To our knowledge, this has not happened before in the city of Royal Oak.”

The City Commission had not formally accepted Miller’s resignation by the time he rescinded it. The commission is set to meet on June 15, and it remains unclear if Miller would be sitting at the table with fellow commissioners.

Miller resigned June 3 in an e-mail letter to Gillam, saying he was “sick to death of people lying about me, threatening me with litigation and fighting every attempt I have made in the last 3 1/2 years to fix the city’s worsening financial crisis,” in the letter obtained by the

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