Item 4: Ordinance Granting Comcast of Oregon II, Inc., an Additional Term and Franchise Renewal

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Section 1 . Section 3 of Ordinance No. 19775 is hereby amended by deleting the current definitions of “Grantee” and “Gross Annual Revenue” in their entirety, and replacing them with the following: "Grantee" shall mean Comcast of Oregon II, Inc., its successors and assigns. "Gross Annual Revenues” means any and all compensation in whatever form, grant, subsidy, exchange, or otherwise, directly or indirectly received by Grantee for services provided to subscribers within the franchise territory but excludes the following: taxes Grantee is required to separately state and collect from subscribers; commissions paid on advertising sales revenues; amounts received from programmers as reimbursement of marketing expenses and launch fees, and, PEG access capital support collected by the Grantee from subscribers if permitted by federal or state law. Except as expressly set forth in this definition, Gross Revenues shall be calculated in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. Section 2 . Section 5(4) of Ordinance No. 19775 is hereby deleted in its entirety, and replaced with the following: Service to Institutions. Upon request of the Commission, the Grantee shall provide single installations of basic service to each fire and police station, public school, City Hall, County Courthouse, and all public libraries on the terms provided in Section 7(2) of this Ordinance. In addition to the institutions listed above and after August 1, 2008, Grantee shall provide, upon request of the Commission and at no cost, a single installation of basic service to no more than 30 additional public buildings owned and occupied by Eugene, Springfield, or Lane County and located within the Franchise Area and within 150 feet of the then existing system operated by Grantee, except for portions of buildings used primarily to house jail populations. No standard installation fee and no monthly service charge shall be made for the distribution of the services described in this section to these locations. Section 3 . Section 5(6) of Ordinance No. 19775 is hereby amended by deleting paragraphs (a) and (b) in their entirety, and replacing them with the following paragraphs (a) and (b) below, and adding a new paragraph (c) as follows: Access Channels. (a) Grantee shall provide four channels dedicated for public, educational, and local government access programming, three within basic service and one additional channel as provided in subsection (b). Ordinance - 2