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File #: 2022-1022    Version:
Type: Resolution Status: Passed Finally
File created: 11/23/2022 In control: Committee on Innovation, Performance and Asset Management
On agenda: 11/29/2022 Final action: 12/13/2022
Enactment date: 12/13/2022 Enactment #: 719
Effective date: 12/19/2022    
Title: Resolution amending Resolution 375-2021, 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. The purpose of the legislation is to add Sixty Thousand Dollars ($60,000) in funding to the agreement for the continuation of these services. The total with the additional requested funding is in an amount not to exceed Five Hundred Ninety-One Thousand, Two Hundred Thirteen Dollars and Seventy Cents ($591,213.70).
Indexes: AGREEMENTS (AMENDING)
Attachments: 1. 2022-1022 Cover Letter-Cohen Law and CTC legislation letter - signed, 2. Summary 2022-1022
Title
Resolution amending Resolution 375-2021, 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. The purpose of the legislation is to add Sixty Thousand Dollars ($60,000) in funding to the agreement for the continuation of these services. The total with the additional requested funding is in an amount not to exceed Five Hundred Ninety-One Thousand, Two Hundred Thirteen Dollars and Seventy Cents ($591,213.70).

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

Resolution amending Resolution 375-2021, "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 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 thirty-one thousand two hundred thirteen dollars and seventy cents ($521,213.70)" 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...

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