(A) The grantee shall make available to subscribers the option to receive a minimum of 85 channels.
(B) (1) The grantee shall maintain the following:
(a) At least one specially-designated, noncommercial public access channel available on a first-come, nondiscriminatory basis;
(b) At least one specially-designated channel per school district for use by local educational authorities;
(c) At least one specially-designated channel for local governmental uses;
(d) At least one specially-designated channel for leased access uses; and
(e) An institutional network (I-Net) of cable, optical, electrical or electronic equipment, including cable television systems, used for the purpose of transmitting two-way telecommunications signals interconnecting designated entities to be determined by the village. Such network may be provided as needed by utilizing capacity on the system.
(2) Provided, however, that the public access, education and local government channels shall be combined on one channel until such time as additional channels become necessary as mutually agreed to by the village and the grantee. The grantee shall make a channel available for leased access uses in accordance with the requirements of federal law. Studios and associated production equipment will be located in a mutually agreed upon site to meet the public’s need for public access, education and local government channels as noted in divisions (B)(1)(a), (B)(1)(b) and (B)(1)(c) above. Financial and technical support and replacement and maintenance of equipment of this facility shall be separately incorporated into the franchise by agreement.
(C) The grantee shall provide emergency broadcast capacity pursuant to FCC rules. The grantee shall cooperate with the village in the use and operation of the emergency alert override system.
(D) Interconnection.
(1) The grantee may be requested to interconnect its system with other communication facilities. Such interconnection shall be made within the time limit established by the village.
(2) Upon receiving a request from the village to interconnect, the franchisee shall immediately initiate negotiations with the other affected system or systems in order that all costs may be shared equally among cable companies for both construction and operation of the interconnection link.
(3) The franchisee may be granted reasonable extensions of time to interconnect or the village may rescind its request to interconnect upon petition by the franchisee to the village if it finds that the franchisee has negotiated in good faith and has arrived at impasse with the operator or franchising authority of the system to be interconnected, or if the franchisee determines that the cost of the interconnection would cause an unreasonable or unacceptable increase in subscriber rates or that interconnection is technically unfeasible.
(4) The grantee shall cooperate with any interconnection corporation, regional interconnection authority or village, county, state and federal regulatory agency which may be hereafter established for the purpose of regulating, financing, or otherwise providing for the interconnection of cable systems beyond the boundaries of the village.
(E) The grantee shall provide such additional services and facilities as are contained in its application, which is incorporated by reference herein.
(2000 Code, § 113.35) (Ord. 1678, passed 7-21-1997)