By Rick Pluta, Michigan Public Radio Network
LANSING, MI –
The chief of the Michigan Economic Development Corporation says he's making the best of a report critical of his agency. The Legislature's auditor general found the agency sometimes failed to make sure that companies that got big tax breaks kept promises to create jobs.
Greg Main is the CEO of the MEDC.
"If you look at the complexity of these programs, it's very hard to get em right the first time, and we see this as a way to improve the process, and we made many of the changes before the auditor general came to our offices, so we understood the need to improve them," he explains.
The MEDC suffered another embarrassment recently when it was revealed the state gave a $9 million tax break to a company run out of a trailer park by a convicted embezzler.