(A) The village and the grantee may hold scheduled yearly performance evaluation sessions within 30 days of the third, sixth and ninth anniversary dates of the grantee’s award or renewal of the franchise and as may be required by federal and state law.
(B) Special evaluation sessions may be held at any time during the term of the franchise at the request of the village or the grantee.
(C) All evaluation sessions shall be open to the public and announced in a newspaper of general circulation in accordance with legal notice. The grantee shall notify its subscribers of all evaluation sessions by announcements on at least one channel of its system between the hours of 7:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m., for five consecutive days preceding each session.
(D) Topics which may be discussed at any scheduled or special evaluation session may include, but are not 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 subchapter; judicial and FCC rulings; line extension policies; and grantee or village rules.
(E) 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 village, the proposed topic or topics shall be added to the list of topics to be discussed at the evaluation session.
(2000 Code, § 113.37) (Ord. 1678, passed 7-21-1997)