Franchisee shall install and thereafter maintain an emergency alert
system (EAS). This EAS shall be designed and operated to meet or exceed all
FCC standards and requirements as may be amended, from time to time.
The franchisee and the Township shall evaluate at minimum intervals
of no greater than once every five years the need for the provision of one
public access facility located within the Township or at such location designated
by the Township, which facility shall include an adequate studio, editing
suites, control room, playback area, administrative and training space, tape,
set and equipment storage space, and all property shall be secured, ventilated,
air-conditioned, heated, lighted, wired and accessible to the handicapped.
It shall also provide equipment to fully equip the facility, including the
studio, separate portable equipment suitable for community use, automated
playback equipment and control facilities, so that signals can be received
on the upstream channels or originated from the facility and then routed from
the facility to the broadband system headend and onto appropriate channels
on the broadband system. When the provision of the public access facility
is deemed necessary by the Township after an evaluation, the franchisee shall
provide the same in accordance with this section.
The Township acknowledges that a franchisee is entitled to pass through
to basic subscribers the increased costs incurred in providing any of the
foregoing facilities and services which may be required by the Township in
the future. To the extent Township approval is required for any such basic
rate adjustment, franchisee shall be under no obligation to provide such facilities
or services until such approval is granted.