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

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(b) Public Safety Channel. Grantee shall make available continued use of a fourth scrambled channel to the Commission providing public safety programming created by the Commission or its designee. The channel shall reside on Grantee’s digital service tier and Grantee shall make available, without charge, use of not more than 75 digital converters to each designated location that shall be configured to receive only the public safety channel. The location of the 75 converters shall be designated in writing by the Commission. Grantee shall provide, at no charge, replacement converters should technology change such that the originally distributed converters are no longer capable of providing access to the channel. The public safety channel as provided herein is the fourth PEG channel required under the franchise prior to this amendment and Grantee shall not be required to provide any other service over this fourth PEG channel. (c) Grantee shall not be responsible for programming, operations or oversight of any public, educational, governmental, or access channels provided for in this Section. Section 4 . Section 10(5) of Ordinance No. 19775 is hereby deleted in its entirety, and replaced with the following: In addition to the franchise fees required by this section, Grantee shall pay to the Commission on or about March 1 of 2007 and 2008 $50,000 per year. Beginning on or about March 1, 2009, and on or about said date each year thereafter for the remaining term of this franchise, Grantee shall pay to the Commission $100,000 per year. Money received by the Commission under this subsection shall be used only for capital costs related to public, educational and governmental access facilities including but not limited to access center equipment acquisition or replacement. Payments under this subsection may, at Grantee’s sole discretion, be made quarterly at the same time franchise fee payments are made pursuant Section 10(1). Grantee's right, if any, to pass through and itemize amounts collected from residential subscribers for payments required pursuant to this section is governed by provisions of federal or state law. Section 5 . Sections 16(1) and (2) of Ordinance No. 19775 are hereby deleted in their entirety, and replaced with the following: (1) Duration and Renewal. This franchise and the rights and privileges granted herein shall remain in effect until August 1, 2018, unless terminated sooner under provisions of Subsection (4) of this section. Renewal of the Grantee's franchise at the end of such term shall be governed by and comply with the provisions of applicable law then in effect. Ordinance - 3