(A) A grantee must install and maintain an emergency alert system complying with FCC standards that can override audio and video (via message crawl or other overlay) on all channels to provide an emergency alert to all subscribers in the city. The system must be designed and maintained so that local officials designated by the city can activate the system remotely without the assistance of grantee, using a telephone and secure password or by such other technical means as the city may approve. The system must be designed and maintained so that the designated officials, from a touch-tone telephone, can activate a pre-recorded text message, and at such officials' option, an accompanying live audio voice message [for up to two minutes]. The city and the grantee shall meet periodically to discuss operational procedures for use of the emergency alert system. As part of those discussions, the parties may agree on alternative capabilities and activation procedures for the emergency alert system. Subject to the foregoing, the emergency alert system should be integrated to the extent reasonably possible with other emergency alert systems the grantee is required to provide under federal or state law.
(B) In the case of any emergency or disaster, a grantee shall, upon request of the Mayor, make available its facilities to the city for emergency use during the emergency or disaster period.
(Ord. 24-2002)