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File #: 2023-2226    Version: 1
Type: Resolution Status: Passed Finally
File created: 11/22/2023 In control: Committee on Innovation, Performance, Asset Management, and Technology
On agenda: 11/28/2023 Final action: 12/12/2023
Enactment date: 12/12/2023 Enactment #: 844
Effective date: 12/16/2023    
Title: Resolution amending Resolution 719 of 2022, authorizing the Mayor and the Director of the Department of Innovation & Performance, and the Director of the Department of Mobility & Infrastructure on behalf of the City of Pittsburgh to enter into an amended Agreement or Agreements or amendments thereto with Cohen Law Group, and CTC Technology & Energy for renegotiation of the City's Cable Franchise Agreements with Comcast and Verizon, and for consultation on development of fiber and wireless telecommunication assets and policy by increasing the approved amount by $60,000 for an amended total cost not-to-exceed Six Hundred Fifty One Thousand Two Hundred Thirteen Dollars and Seventy Cents ($651,213.70) over four years.
Indexes: AGREEMENTS (AMENDING)
Attachments: 1. 2023-2226 Cover Letter-Cohen Law and CTC legislation letter 2023 - signed, 2. Summary 2023-2226

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Resolution amending Resolution 719 of 2022, authorizing the Mayor and the Director of the Department of Innovation & Performance, and the Director of the Department of Mobility & Infrastructure on behalf of the City of Pittsburgh to enter into an amended Agreement or Agreements or amendments thereto with Cohen Law Group, and CTC Technology & Energy for renegotiation of the City’s Cable Franchise Agreements with Comcast and Verizon, and for consultation on development of fiber and wireless telecommunication assets and policy by increasing the approved amount by $60,000 for an amended total cost not-to-exceed Six Hundred Fifty One Thousand Two Hundred Thirteen Dollars and Seventy Cents ($651,213.70) over four years.

 

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Be it resolved by the Council of the City of Pittsburgh as follows:

 

Resolution amending Resolution 719 of 2022, “The Mayor and the Director of the Department of Innovation & Performance, and the Director of the Department of Mobility & Infrastructure on behalf of the City of Pittsburgh are authorized to enter into an amended Agreement or Agreements or amendments thereto with Cohen Law Group, and CTC Technology & Energy for renegotiation of the City’s Cable Franchise Agreements with Comcast and Verizon, and for consultation on development of fiber and wireless telecommunication assets and policy in an amount not to exceed Five Hundred Ninety-One Thousand, Two Hundred Thirteen Dollars and Seventy Cents ($591,213.70),” is hereby amended as follows:

 

Section 1.                     The Mayor and the Director of the Department of Innovation & Performance, and the Director of the Department of Mobility & Infrastructure on behalf of the City of Pittsburgh are authorized to enter into an amended Agreement or Agreements or amendments thereto with Cohen Law Group, and CTC Technology & Energy for renegotiation of the City’s Cable Franchise Agreements with Comcast and Verizon, and for consultation on development of fiber and wireless telecommunication assets and policy in an amount not to exceed Five Hundred Ninety-One Thousand, Two Hundred Thirteen Dollars and Seventy Cents ($591,213.70) by increasing the approved amount by $60,000 for an amended total cost not-to-exceed Six Hundred Fifty One Thousand Two Hundred Thirteen Dollars and Seventy Cents ($651,213.70) over four years, chargeable to and payable from the following code accounts:

 

I&P

11101.103000.53.53901.2020                     $474,213.70

11101.103000.53.53901.2022                     $60,000.00

11101.103000.53.53901.2023                     $60,000.00

 

DOMI

11101.600000.53.53901.2021                     $57,000.00

 

 

Section 2.                     The agreement or agreements and amendments are subject to the approval of the City Solicitor as to form.

 

Section 3.                     Any ordinance or Resolution or part thereof conflicting with the provisions of this Resolution is hereby repealed as far as the same affects this Resolution.