UPDATE: The Benton Harbor City Commissioners vote in favor of transferring the $420k to assist in paying overdue bills.

UPDATE: The Benton Harbor City Commissioners voted 6-1 in favor of transferring the $420k to assist in paying overdue bills.

ORIGINAL STORY: BENTON HARBOR, Mich. -- Tensions are high in Benton Harbor as the city government, and its services, could shut down.

The city of Benton Harbor currently has over a million dollars in overdue bills

ABC57's Leo Goldman was at the Benton Harbor City Hall for a press conference where Mayor Marcus Muhammed warned about potential issues the city could face.

Muhammed warned that a vote against the transfer of 420k in income tax dollars to help the city pay those bills could potentially result in a repeat of 2010 where the city was placed under a state mandated emergency management.

"We don't want an emergency to turn into a crisis," said Mayor Muhammed. "The money was not there so the emergency became a crisis, and we lost control of the local government, our sanitation, our ability to plow, our ability to if there was a fire, our ability to fight fires, and our ability to provide public safety. It would be an official local government shutdown"

The full Benton Harbor Special City Commission can be watched here.