The Borough of East Greenville finds that the development
of cable television and communications systems has the potential of having
great benefit and impact upon the people of East Greenville Borough. Because
of the complex and rapidly changing technology associated with cable television,
the borough further finds that the public convenience, safety and general
welfare can best be served by establishing regulatory powers which should
be vested in the borough or such persons as the borough shall designate. It
is the intent of this chapter and subsequent amendments to provide for and
specify the means to attain the best possible public interest and public purpose
in these matters, and any franchise issued pursuant to this chapter shall
be deemed to include this finding as an integral part thereof.
Further, it is recognized that cable communications systems
have the capacity to provide not only entertainment and information services
to the borough's residents, but can provide a variety of broadband, interactive
communications services to institutions and individuals.
The system should be capable of accommodating both the
present and reasonably foreseeable future communications needs of the borough
and its residents and be upgraded to correspond to present state of the Act.
The system shall be constructed and maintained during
the franchise term so that new components may be integrated to the maximum
extent possible with existing facilities.