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3 proposal would significantly increase the non‐PEG I‐Net costs which will significantly burden the non‐PEG users unfairly and would serve to enrich Comcast’s profits on a fully paid for network. However, despite the fact that Comcast has already been compensated for the I‐Net and the fact that its maintenance costs are minimal, Comcast now wants to charge for its use. For the use of the I‐Net to transmit video programming, Comcast proposes to charge subscribers another $645,000 over the 10‐year franchise by passing through $0.18 per month per subscriber. For the non‐video uses, Comcast would charge $1,675.80 per month per location for network interconnectivity and $750 per month per rack/cabinet for collocation. For this charge, “…Comcast will agree to continue to provide institutional‐network services comparable to that provided today” to recover what the company believes is the “fair‐market value” of that portion of the I‐Net. Based on the language in the proposal, it is frankly unclear whether Comcast is proposing to provide managed services for the I‐Net or whether the company is intending for the local governmental users and NSCC/NSAC to pay more while they continue to buy and maintain their own equipment as they do now. Comcast’s proposal on the I‐Net does not meet the needs and interests identified in the Staff Report and RFRP. PEG Funding The current level of operational and capital funding for the community media facility operated by the North Suburban Access Corporation, dba CTV North Suburbs, in 2014 amounts to a little over $1.5 million. In addition, the NSCC receives a Scholarship Grant that provides educational scholarships to post‐secondary students pursuing degrees in communications and paid internships at CTV North Suburbs. These student interns work with the cities, as well as with public and educational access producers and volunteers. In order to assess our future needs and interests, the NSCC commissioned The Buske Group to determine the future needs and interests. As summarized in the Staff Report and RFRP, the capital needs were approximately $14,000,000 over the ten‐year proposed franchise term. Additionally, the NSCC proposed that Comcast essentially continue to voluntarily support the operational needs of the NSCC/NSAC. Incorrectly asserting that federal law prohibits the payment of operational funding, Comcast’s formal proposal would provide only $0.44 per subscriber per month for PEG capital needs only. Depending on the number of subscribers, that would range from approximately $153,000 per year to approximately $158,000 per year, compared to the nearly $100,000 in annual capital grants in years 1 through 15 of the current franchise. This proposed level of capital funding is drastically below the identified needs and interest from the Buske Report and should serve as a basis for a preliminary denial of the Comcast proposal. Comcast has provided limited explanation in its proposal as to how the dramatically reduced capital funding could meet the capital needs of the NSCC/NSAC over the next ten years. Although this is an increase