(A) (1) Every grantee shall, to the extent required by the franchise agreement, provide institutional networks as a condition of an initial grant or renewal, or transfer of a franchise.
(2) To the extent that a grantee is obligated to provide the support pursuant to its franchise agreement, the obligation will be implemented in a competitively neutral manner, on a per subscriber basis with respect to any other franchises granted after the adoption of this chapter.
(3) Costs associated with construction and operation of an I-Net shall not be a franchise fee, unless otherwise specified in the franchise agreement.
(B) (1) Every grantee shall provide a channel or channels, bandwidth capacity, service, and funding for separate public, educational, and government (“PEG”) access channels, as specified in its franchise agreement.
(2) All the PEG access channels shall be available to all subscribers as part of basic cable service.
(C) (1) Oversight and administration of the PEG access channels shall be set forth in the franchise agreement.
(2) The city may designate a community access corporation or similar entity to administer one or more of the PEG access channels.
(Ord. passed, 8-27-02)