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Residents urge ethical procurement and investment clause for Lansing charter
Summary
Community members asked the Lansing City Charter Commission to add language directing the city to consider human-rights and environmental-justice criteria in city procurements and investments. Commissioners raised fiduciary, implementation and jurisdiction questions and urged the group to bring more research and work with existing city bodies.
Amanda Castillo and Sam Burton, members of a Lansing-based coalition for human rights and environmental justice, asked the Lansing City Charter Commission on May 13, 2025, to add an "ethical investment" clause to the City of Lansing charter that would require the city to consider human-rights and environmental-justice criteria when making procurements and investments.
The request, delivered during the commission's public presentations, asks that the charter direct the city to adopt ethical guidelines as a "guardrail" for future purchasing and investing decisions so that city funds and purchases align with values the presenters say Lansing claims to uphold.
Castillo told commissioners, "The City Of Lansing in its procurements and investments ... shall make its procurements and investments ethically," and said the proposal would not force an immediate overhaul of city operations…
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