Inkster council approves $14,175 fee to join Michigan Healthy Climate fellow program

The Inkster City Council on Dec. 15 approved a $14,175 post-site fee to enroll the city in the Michigan Healthy Climate HC Fellow Program and secure a fellow who is expected to begin service in January.

Councilmember or staff speaker (identified in the record as Speaker 5) said the fee "is necessary to secure a current Fellow who will begin service with the city in January and support ongoing sustainability in fracture, infrastructure, and workforce development initiatives." The council moved, seconded and approved the payment by voice vote.

The program enrollment fee is intended to place a fellow with the city to work on sustainability and workforce development tasks. The record does not specify the fellow’s salary or whether the fee covers any portion of compensation; council documents or the administration were not recorded as providing a budget breakdown during the meeting.

Action taken: council authorized the administration to pay the $14,175 enrollment fee. The motion passed by voice vote; no roll-call tally or named dissenters were recorded in the meeting transcript.

The council did not set additional conditions for the fellowship in the public record; next steps (such as a formal start-date announcement or a scope-of-work summary for the fellow) were not specified in the meeting minutes included in the record.