(A) The grantee shall make readily available for public use at the least the minimal equipment necessary for the production of programming and playback of prerecorded programs for the specially designated noncommercial public access channel. The grantee shall also make readily available, upon need being shown, the minimum equipment necessary to make it possible to record programs at remote locations with battery operated portable equipment. Grantee shall provide local programming equipment and facilities. Need shall be determined by subscriber petition. The petition must contain the signature of at least 10% of the subscribers of the system, but in no case more than 500 nor fewer than 100 signatures.
(B) The grantee shall make available to access users the two-camera color studio with editing facility and the master control as described in § 11.121(B) at times determined in the operating rules to be developed by the grantee and the city or its designate.
(C) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, grantee shall be responsible, at its own expense, for maintaining, repairing, adjusting, and replacing all equipment, or any replacements thereto added by grantee, to ensure that it is kept in good working order. Capital expenditures of no less than $70,000 for replacement local programming equipment shall be made by grantee during the term of this franchise. Grantee is hereby relieved of the requirement to have a mobile production van exclusively for access users in the city. A mobile production van shall be available, however, for public access users upon 30 days advance written request.
(D) The grantee shall provide a minimum of at least two full-time staff persons for facilitating access programming. Staff assistance for training for access producers will be provided at no charge.
('77 Code, § 11.107) (Am. Ord. 982, passed 11-9-81; Am. Ord. 1125, passed 5-27-86; Am. Ord. 1202, passed 6-25-90)