(A) The Town and a company shall hold scheduled performance evaluation sessions every third year within 30 days of the anniversary date of a company’s award or renewal of its franchise and as may be required by federal and state law. Notice as defined at § 118.33 shall be provided for all such evaluation sessions, which shall be open to the public.
(B) Special evaluation sessions may be held at any time during the term of the franchise at the request of the Town or a company.
(C) Topics which may be discussed at any scheduled or special evaluation session may include, but shall not be limited to, service rate structures, franchise fee, penalties, free or discounted services, application of new technologies, system performance, services provided, programming offered, customer complaints, privacy, amendments to this chapter, judicial and FCC rulings, construction policies and a company or Town rules.
(D) Members of the general public may add topics either by working through the negotiating parties or by presenting a petition. If such a petition bears the valid signatures of 50 or more residents of the Town, the proposed topic or topics shall be added to the list of topics to be discussed at the evaluation session.
(`83 Code, § 13-536)