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File #: 2024-0662    Version: 1
Type: Resolution Status: Passed Finally
File created: 7/5/2024 In control: Committee on Innovation, Performance, Asset Management, and Technology
On agenda: 7/9/2024 Final action: 7/23/2024
Enactment date: 7/23/2024 Enactment #: 488
Effective date: 7/24/2024    
Title: Resolution amending Resolution 844-2023, 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 Sixty Thousand Dollars ($60,000) for an amended total cost not-to-exceed Seven Hundred Eleven Thousand Two Hundred Thirteen Dollars and Seventy Cents ($711,213.70) over five years.
Indexes: AGREEMENTS (AMENDING)
Attachments: 1. 2024-0662 Cover Letter-Cohen Law and CTC revised legislation letter - signed, 2. 2024-0662-Cohen Law and CTC request for waiver of competitive process - signed, 3. Summary 2024-0662
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Resolution amending Resolution 844-2023, 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 Sixty Thousand Dollars ($60,000) for an amended total cost not-to-exceed Seven Hundred Eleven Thousand Two Hundred Thirteen Dollars and Seventy Cents ($711,213.70) over five years.

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

Resolution 844-2023, "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 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" 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 o...

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