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Committee presses administration for clarity after city splits demolition contracts to rent fencing separately
Summary
Detroit Public Health and Safety Standing Committee questioned why fencing for emergency demolitions was broken out into a separate rental contract and asked administration to return with more details; the committee agreed to bring items 5.1 and 5.5 back in one week for further review.
The Detroit City Council Public Health and Safety Standing Committee on Monday asked the administration for clearer cost and operational detail after the city separated fencing from demolition and backfill work and put the fencing work out for rental contracts.
The change, presented by Alwine Counts, group executive of construction and building operations, removes fencing and site backfill from the single contractor responsibility that traditionally covered knockdown, loadout and site finalization. “When we made the decision to pull the backfill portion out … we had this gap on the fencing side of things,” Counts said. She explained the city plans to rent fencing and control its use across multiple emergency-demolition sites rather than purchase and store large quantities of materials.
Committee members said the split…
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