The special monitor overseeing the FDNY’s minority-hiring practices wants to pay a consulting firm $35,000 to $40,000 a month in taxpayer money.

The monitor, Mark S. Cohen, says Manitou Inc. will look at the NYPD’s hiring practices and study recruiting policies at other major metropolitan fire and police departments to see if the FDNY can learn from them.

Brooklyn federal Judge Nicholas Garaufis must approve the plan, part of a court-mandated effort to boost the hiring, training and promotions of minorities in the 11,000-person FDNY, which is overwhelmingly white.