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. . ORDINANCE NO. 489 PAGE THREE C. Grantee shall provide at least thirteen (13) channels for access use for the following uses: two (2 ) public access, an educational access, a government access, one (1) leased access, a local origination access, a religious access, a special needs access, a library access, a higher education, a community access, and two (2) public school district access channels (hereinafter "access channels"). All residential subscribers who receive all or any part of the total services offered on the System shall also receive all of said thirteen (13) access channels at no additional charge. All channels shall be activated upon System activation and thereafter maintained. Crantee ohall eotablioh ruleD and regul~tiono prior to Syotem acti~~Yation for the uoe of acceoo channelo ~ihich ohall be appro7ed by City before implementation and thereafter ohall not be altered or .:lIRended ~dthout appro..:ral of City in preparing ouch ruleol Delete c. (l) , (2) and (3) . Delete D., D.(l), and insert new D. (below) D. The City and its desiqnee shall have complete and unrestricted . access to the access channels, however, the Grantee shall have full responsibility for the maintenance, repair, and technical performance of the cable and related active and passive electronics which carry said access channels (excludi.nq all equi?ment owned and operated by the City or the North Suburban Cable Communications Commission). The VHF spectrum shall be used to at least one of the specially designated noncommercial public access channels required unless specifically waived by City or its desiqnee. No charges shall be made for channel time or playback of prerecorded programming on access channels exce?t the leased access channel which shall remain in the exclusive control of Grantee. Any feeD for uoe of public acceoo channelo ohall be conoiotent ~dth the goal of affording the public a lmi coot meano of telc..yioion acceoo. A.cccoo facilitieo, cquipment and/or channel time 'idll be madc ay.:railablc to the gcneral public, any group or individual reoident in City for the production and/or cablecaoting of noncoHlHlcrcial progr.:unming frec of charge on a firot come, nondiocriminatory baoio. E. Whenever any of the access channels is in use during 80 percent of the weekdays (Monday-Friday), for 80 percent of the time during any consecutive three hour period for six weeks running, and there is demand for use of an additional channel for the same purpose, Grantee shall then have six months in . which to provide a new specially designated access channel for the same purpose at no additional cost to subscribers.