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MAY 51982 .49 The Board proceeded to review the items in question as follows: (1) Article III, Section 3 - The Board had no problem with renewing up to twenty years with provisions for additional periods as suggested by Attorney Brandenburg. Mr. Crosby of Florida Cablevision had no objection to the wording suggested by Attorney Brandenburg. (2) Article III, Section 5B - Discussion followed in regard to providing one local origination channel to serve all governmental bodies within the county, and Commissioner Bird inquired how many channels there will be. Mr. Crosby stated that when they rebuild their system there may be anywhere from 20 channels to 52, and he suggested that they would then dedicate a channel for governmental purposes only. Attorney Brandenburg commented that this section originally read that the company would be required to provide a channel when we requested it. Now, when the channel is available and unused, the county may use it. The Board had no problem with this except Commissioner Fletcher did not like the idea of free enterprise having to give us a channel. Commissioner Wodtke pointed out that the company does not have to spend money to make the channel available and whatever governmental agency is going to use the channel will have to pay for the camera work, productions, etc.; they are just going to provide access to the channel. Mr. Crosby stated that Florida Cablevision has no problem with this. The Board next discussed Attorney Cooksey's suggestion that the county franchise fee be a maximum of 3% to be paid on basic cable installations andbasiccable revenues only - no fee to be paid on any premium or pay channels, and Attorney Brandenburg commented that the Federal Communications Commission and the law allow the county to charge 30 on all revenues. Whether to charge