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herein shall diminish the City's rights to secure additional channels pursuant to Minn. Stat. § 238.084,which is expressly incorporated herein by reference. City shall provide ninety (90) days prior written notice to Grantee of City's intent to activate access channels. d. Grantee may not move or otherwise change the channel number or location of any public or government access or community program channel, including the North Suburban Mosaic channel,without the written approval of the City or its designee. Upon six(6)months' notice to City, any other access channel may be moved by Grantee, but in no event more than once every two (2)years unless otherwise allowed by City, provided Grantee pays all reasonable costs or expenses arising out of the channel move including,but not limited to, equipment necessary to effect the change at the programmer's production or receiving facility(school frequency routing equipment, etc.), signage, letterhead, business cards, and reasonable marketing or other constituency notification costs. This paragraph shall not apply to Regional Channel 6. 2. Charges for Use. Channel time and playback of programming on the PEG access and community program channel(s)must be provided without charge to City and the public. 3. Access Rules. City, or its designee, shall implement rules for use of any access channel(s). 4. Access Support. Grantee shall pay a PEG Fee of$4.15/subscriber/month from the effective date until the franchise renews. Starting with the 2016 calendar year,the City may elect to increase this fee based on the Consumer Price Index. Any such election must be made in writing to the Franchisee no later than September 1St prior to the year in which the increase shall apply. In no event shall the PEG Fee be in an amount different from the incumbent cable provider. In the event the incumbent recovers from subscribers a higher, or lower, PEG fee, Grantee will increase, or decrease, its PEG fee upon ninety(90) days written notice from the City. The PEG fee may be used for operational or capital support of PEG programming. 5. Regional Channel 6. Grantee shall designate standard VHF Channel 6 for uniform regional channel usage. 6. State and Federal Law compliance. Satisfaction of the requirements of this Section 6 satisfies any and all of Grantee's state and federal law requirements of Grantee with respect to PEG access. 7. Future PEG Funding Obligations. Grantee agrees that financial support for PEG arising from or relating to the obligations set forth in this Section shall in no way modify or otherwise affect Grantee's obligations to pay Franchise Fees to City. Grantee agrees that although the sum of Franchise Fees plus the payments set forth in this Section may total more than five percent(5%) of Grantee's Gross Revenues in any 12-month period,the additional commitments shall not be offset or otherwise credited in any way against any Franchise Fee payments under this Franchise Agreement. 20