13-4-2: PEG ACCESS CHANNELS REQUIRED:
Every grantee shall provide a channel or channels, bandwidth capacity, service, and capital funding for separate public, educational and government access channels as specified in its franchise agreement. All such PEG access channels shall be available to all subscribers as part of their basic cable service. Every grantee shall make a good faith effort to negotiate with other cable providers in the village and the surrounding area to interconnect its network where feasible in order to facilitate any requirements with respect to shared access programming on a local and regional basis. The village reserves the right to negotiate franchise agreement provisions with respect to the uniform cablecasting of PEG access programming throughout the entire village without respect to the specific cable operator. Oversight and administration of the PEG access channels shall be as set forth in the franchise agreement. The village reserves the right to designate a community access corporation or similar entity to administer one or more of the access channels; and upon said designation, the grantee shall assist and cooperate to transfer administration to said corporation as provided in the franchise agreement; provided, however, that the costs of said assistance, cooperation and transfer shall at all times be borne by the grantee. (Ord. 1241, 6-18-2001)