The City shall have sole and exclusive responsibility for identifying the designated access providers and allocating the access resources under this article. The City may authorize designated access providers to control and manage the use of any and all access facilities provided by grantee under this franchise, including, without limitation, the operation of access channels. To the extent of such designation by the City, the designated access provider shall have sole and exclusive responsibility for operating and managing such access facilities. The City or its designee may formulate rules for the operation of the access channels, consistent with this franchise. Grantee shall cooperate with the City and designated access providers in the use of the cable system and access facilities for the provision of access. Nothing herein shall prohibit the City from authorizing itself to be a designated access provider. Nothing herein shall prohibit the City from assigning several designated access providers to share a single access channel.
All assigned access channels can be used to transmit signals in any format which is technically compatible with the cable system, including, by way of example and not limitation, video, audio only, secondary audio and/or text messages. Such uses must be in furtherance of access purposes.
(a) 
Within 120 days of written notification by the City to the grantee, grantee shall provide one downstream government, educational and public access channel on the cable system for the exclusive use of the City.
(b) 
In the event that at any time during the duration of this franchise agreement the City determines to enact a government, educational and public access channel fee (PEG fee) the City may by ordinance set and/or amend the PEG fee.
All access channels provided to subscribers under this franchise shall be included by grantee, without limitation, as a part of basic service.
Grantee will use reasonable efforts to minimize the movement of access channel assignments.
Grantee shall provide the City with a minimum of 90 days’ notice, and use its best efforts to provide 120 days’ notice, prior to the time any access channel designation is changed, unless the change is required by federal law, in which case grantee shall give the City the maximum notice possible. Any new channel designations for the access channels provided pursuant to this franchise shall be in full compliance with FCC signal quality and proof-of-performance standards.
The grantee shall maintain all access channels at the same or better level of technical quality and reliability required by this franchise and all other applicable laws, rules and regulations for other channels.
In the event grantee makes any change in the cable system and related equipment and facilities or in grantee’s signal delivery technology, which affects the signal quality or transmission of access services or programming, grantee shall, at its own expense, take necessary technical steps or provide necessary technical assistance, including the acquisition of all necessary equipment and training of access personnel, to ensure that the capabilities of access services are not diminished or adversely affected by such change. For example, this provision shall apply if the cable system is converted from an analog to a digital format, such that the access channels must also be converted to digital in order to be received by subscribers.
Upon request by the City, grantee shall include information about access programming in the installation packet provided to subscribers. The City shall supply the materials, for insertion in the packet, in a format consistent with grantee’s requirements.