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Committee questions Dykema Gossett contract for broadband challenge work; item returned for OCP clarification
Summary
The Detroit City Council Committee of the Whole paused final approval of a $25,000 contract with the law firm Dykema Gossett PLLC to advise the city's Office of Digital Equity and Inclusion on federal and state broadband availability challenges, and voted to bring the item back in one week for clarification from the Office of Contracting and Procurement (OCP).
The Detroit City Council Committee of the Whole paused final approval of a $25,000 contract with the law firm Dykema Gossett PLLC to advise the city's Office of Digital Equity and Inclusion on federal and state broadband availability challenges, and voted to bring the item back in one week for clarification from the Office of Contracting and Procurement (OCP).
The committee heard from attorney Jason Hanselman of Dykema Gossett, who said the firm provided a legal analysis in late 2023 to evaluate challenge options under the Federal Communications Commission and Michigan processes for the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program. “This was purely a legal analysis and advising the city how we could challenge the FCC and the state of Michigan’s determinations,” Hanselman said.
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