Financial Showplace in Novi will still become a backup option if Detroit leaders can not come to an agreement on Cobo Center.

Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson said Friday that Detroit Mayor Dave Bing and Speaker of the House Andy Dillon, D-Redford Township, both called him and said the omission of the Rock from bills that the state House passed on Thursday was an "oversight."

"Option B will be put back in the legislation," Patterson said. "It was done by the Detroit legislators who ran it all through and didn't want to acknowledge the suburbs. We're not trying to steal the show from Detroit. All they have to do is move to accept the legislation, and the show is theirs."

The package of bills on Thursday did not have the Rock Financial Showplace in Novi listed as a backup plan. The bills are aimed at keeping the North American International Auto Show in Detroit.

Dillon said a backup plan was left out of the package of bills that went before the state House Thursday because there wasn't enough time to prepare the bill.

"We needed to move the bill this week," he said.

"I never intended that there wouldn't be a backup plan. I think the deal with Cobo is going to work out fine, but we need to have a safety net."

A backup plan will be added in the legislation, but it will allow all communities to present alternative options for the 2011 North American International Auto Show, he said.

"Everyone should be able to compete for the backup plan," said Dillon, naming Detroit and Wayne and Macomb counties. "I just don't want to rig the game in favor of Oakland. At the end of the day, I believe the auto dealers will decide where they want to go."

The legislation would allow Detroit to keep ownership of Cobo and give residents in Wayne, Oakland or Macomb counties priority for Cobo Center jobs.

It's now up to the Senate to agree to the House-passed plan or for the chambers to come up with a compromise.

State Rep. Shanelle Jackson, D-Detroit, a sponsor of the package, said the bills will next go to a conference committee where a compromise will be hammered out.