Clawson Council Appoints Alec Speshock to Fill Vacancy, Rescinds Lame Duck Commission Appointments

Clawson Council appoints Alec Speshock to fill emptiness and withdraws Lame Duck Fee appointments

(Crystal A. Proxmire, December 15, 2025)

Clawson, MI – With the election of Sue Moffitt as mayor, the Clawson Metropolis Council was tasked with appointing a resident to fill the council seat she held. And on December 8, the Council unanimously appointed Alec Speshock to this place.

Speshock has lived in Clawson for about 5 years. On the time he filed for workplace, he was serving on the DDA board as a member at giant, though he was pressured to resign earlier than being sworn into the board. He additionally serves on the board of administrators of the Lion’s Membership and is president of the Clawson Chamber of Commerce. Each the Lion’s Membership and the Chamber are non-profit organizations separate from native authorities.

Earlier than transferring to Clawson, Speshock lived in Berkley, the place at age 16 he served on the town’s Tree Board.

4 individuals utilized for the Clawson Metropolis Council emptiness: Scott Manning, William Renshaw, Glenn Shepard and Speshock.

Previous to the appointment, Manning, Shepard and Speshock answered questions from council members on the December 8 assembly.

Speshock shared his background, which incorporates banking and actual property. “Having the ability to have a look at numbers is enjoyable,” he says. “I do know lots of people both actually adore it or actually hate it, however I really actually get pleasure from it… I like seeing the failures and the way the whole lot seems.”

When requested what he thought have been the highest three points for Clawson, Spesock shared issues about infrastructure, together with roads, sewers and city-owned buildings. He additionally emphasised the necessity to consider the finances, with the goal of discovering “the place we are able to save and what we are able to do higher.” And eventually, he hopes for extra transparency, stating that he desires to “ensure that I hear all sides… give individuals the chance to say what they imagine in.”

That is the primary time the Metropolis of Clawson has had a seven-member board, a change accepted by voters in a current constitution modification. Voters additionally declined to re-elect the previous mayor and council members, leaving the town with a brand new management staff.

Councilman Scott Tinlin instructed that the second-highest vote-getter within the final election needs to be thought-about for the emptiness, then-Councilman Glenn Sheppard. Nonetheless, council members Meredith Peltonen and Heather Rinkvich stated voters have been instructed to vote for not more than 4 candidates, and that if voters had been given the choice to vote for 5, the vote totals would have been totally different.

“The general outcomes confirmed a alternative for brand spanking new management,” Rinkevich stated.

The present council has additionally needed to take care of navigation selections from the outgoing mayor and councilors, who held a particular assembly simply days earlier than their departure to approve a profitable contract change for the town supervisor and fill board and fee seats, together with these not but vacant.

On the December 2, 2025 council assembly, they voted to withdraw two of the appointments: Jennifer Perkins to the Zoning Board of Appeals, and Nate Herra to the Planning Fee. By reversing the votes, each phrases will now finish on December 31, 2025. Council members said that this was to not forestall these members from being reappointed, however would merely put the choice again within the arms of the present council.

Relating to the Metropolis Supervisor’s contract, the Metropolis Lawyer shared the opinion that the contract modification was voted on at a public assembly, which was appropriately famous, by the then Board of Administrators. Councilman Rinkevich made a movement in search of outdoors authorized recommendation on the contract, however different council members voted no.

Extra details about the Metropolis of Clawson will be discovered at https://www.cityofclawson.com/

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