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Committee delays $3.5 million environmental testing amendment, asks law department to review cost-recovery options
Summary
The Public Health & Safety Committee heard about a $3.5 million amendment to an environmental due-diligence contract to test and analyze fill and topsoil at demolition sites; members asked the law department to assess whether the city can recover costs from contractors and agreed to revisit the item in two weeks.
The Detroit City Council Public Health & Safety standing committee on Monday deferred action on a $3.5 million amendment to an environmental due-diligence contract after members pressed administration staff for information about cost recovery and possible contractor breaches.
The amendment (contract 6006589) would increase available funds for the Monique Smith Group — one of the city’s environmental-services vendors — and extend the contract through Sept. 23, 2027. Nick Payne, planning and strategy manager with the Construction and Demolition Department, said the vendor will mobilize to identified sites, take backfill and…
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