Unless otherwise provided for in the franchise agreement:
(a) The grantee shall, at its cost, make available at an identified location inside an exterior wall of the public facilities to be set forth in an exhibit to the franchise agreement ("sites"), plus three additional facilities designated by the grantor (which must be nonprofit institutions), two fibers, in each case with not less than fifty feet of additional fiber extending inside the facility ("institutional network"). Use of the fibers provided by the grantee pursuant to this section will be limited to video and data transmissions between and among the facilities described in this section and any other facility attached to the institutional network under the terms of a franchise between the grantee and the political subdivision in which such facility is located. Any additional interior or exterior wiring or equipment necessary to utilize the institutional network shall be at the cost of the user. There shall be no cost to the grantor or the other designated sites for the use and maintenance of the institutional network. In addition to the City, the grantee may provide telecommunications services to residential and other non-residential subscribers on such terms and at such rates as the grantee may in its discretion determine.
(b) Notwithstanding the foregoing, if technically feasible, the grantee shall interconnect the institutional network with other dedicated fiber, limited access institutional networks provided by other cable operators for the sole purpose of providing educational access programming between school districts and emergency agencies consisting of video or data transmissions, provided that such interconnections shall be limited to dedicated fiber, limited access, institutional networks servicing the municipalities and school districts to be listed in an exhibit to the franchise agreement and may consider other such interconnections requested by the grantor, and provided, further, that the grantee shall not be required to provide such an interconnection to a network located in a municipality in which it does not have a franchise, unless the user assumes the cost of the initial connection. All costs associated with the construction of the interconnections within the franchise area shall be the sole responsibility of the grantee. There shall be no cost to the grantor or the other designated sites for the use and maintenance of the institutional network. All other costs shall be the sole responsibility of the requesting party or the other cable operator.
(c) If the grantor or any of the sites has a presently existing network, service on such network will not be unreasonably interrupted during the building of the new system.
(Ord. 1999-54. Passed 9-15-99.)