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• RENEWAL FRANCHISE ORDINANCE SUMMARY On [Insert Date], 2002, the City of [Insert Name], Minnesota (the "City"), intends to adopt Ordinance No. [Insert Number], which grants a franchise to MediaOne North Central Communications Corp. d/b /a AT &T Broadband. Among other things, Ordinance No. [Insert Number] would: > Permit AT &T Broadband to use the City's public rights -of -way to provide cable service to subscribers in the City for a period of fifteen years from the effective date of the franchise; > Require AT &T Broadband to comply with applicable federal, state and local law; > Impose conditions on AT &T Broadband's use of City public rights -of -way; > Obligate AT &T Broadband to follow all applicable safety practices required by law; > Allow the City to use AT &T Broadband's poles, ducts and conduits, free of charge, for noncommercial purposes; > Require a cable system upgrade that ensures AT &T Broadband's network is state- of -the- art and capable of providing advanced services; > Require the system to have a minimum analog channel capacity of at least 78 channels, plus additional capacity for digital and other services; > Impose a deadline of July 15, 2004, for AT &T Broadband to complete the system upgrade; > Obligate AT &T Broadband provide and install, free of charge, equipment that permits the City to activate the emergency alert system in the event of an emergency; > Impose a density requirement for the extension of AT &T Broadband's cable system to businesses and residences requesting cable service; > Ensure that underserved areas in Blaine, Ham Lake and Lino Lakes are served by the cable system, regardless of building density; > Require AT &T Broadband to operate, maintain and test its cable system in accordance with applicable standards and regulations; > Empower the City to regulate cable service rates, to the extent permitted by law and regulation; > Set forth customer service standards that AT &T Broadband must follow at all times, including telephone answering standards, appointment windows and subscriber inquiry and complaint procedures. > Require AT &T Broadband to make six channels available to the North Metro Telecommunications Commission (the "Commission ") on the cable system for public, educational, governmental and religious access use; > Obligate AT &T Broadband to pay a fee to the Commission, on a quarterly basis, to support public, educational, governmental and religious access programming; > Release the Commission from repaying possible PEG fee overpayments that may be due to AT &T Broadband as of December 31, 2001; > Require AT &T Broadband to upgrade the existing coaxial institutional network to a hybrid fiber - coaxial network at no cost to the City or the Commission. This network word serve the municipal sites denoted in the franchise documents, and would be capable of carrying video, voice and data signals;