In the event of one or more franchises being granted, the city may require that such subsequent franchisees pay to the city an amount proportionally equal to franchising costs contributed by the initial franchisee. These costs may include, but are not limited to, such features as access and institutional network costs, bi-directional or equivalent cable installed to municipal buildings and similar expenses.

On the anniversary of the grant of each later awarded franchise, such franchisees shall pay to the city an amount proportional to the amount contributed by the original franchisee, based upon the amount contributed by the original franchisee.

Additional franchisees shall provide all PEG access channel(s) currently available to the subscribers of existing franchisees. In order to provide these access channels, additional franchisees may interconnect, at their cost, with existing franchisees, subject to any reasonable terms and conditions that the existing franchisee providing the interconnection may require. These interconnection agreements shall be made directly between the franchisees. The city council, in such cases of dispute over an interconnection agreement as contemplated under this section, may be called upon to arbitrate the dispute. (Ord. 2346 § 1, 1995)