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i b. The Grantee will provide.the following capital grant for PEG use for so long as it continues to operate under this franchise: Payments of all grants under the 1994 MOU through December 31, 2017; commencing January 1, 2018, Grantee shall pay to City three percent (3.0%) of its Gross Revenues paid quarterly based upon revenues for the calendar quarter. The first Gross Revenue payment shall be due on May 1, 2018, based on Gross Revenues for the quarter beginning January 1, 2018 and ending March 31, 2018, and thereafter, payments shall be due 30 days after the end of each calendar quarter, based on revenues for that quarter, or if the franchise should terminate or be revoked, 30 days after termination or revocation for any portion of quarter during which Grantee provided Cable Service. C. Notwithstanding the foregoing requirements, if Grantee has a valid and binding sponsorship contract with an entity designated by the City/Commission to manage any public access channel, the City agrees that Grantee may offset any amount it pays under such contract against payments required above. Nothing in this section requires or shall be deemed to require Grantee to make any payment that constitutes a franchise fee under 47 U.S.C. § 542. d. The parties agree that any cost to the Grantee associated with providing any support for PEG use required under this Franchise (including subscriber network drops and equipment and service to public institutions and the provision of the dark fiber network and PRISMA network and support for and payments made outside this franchise, if any), shall not be offset from the franchise fee. C. Grantee may itemize the PEG fees on Subscribers' invoices in accordance with applicable law; provided, however, any PEG Fee charged to subscribers to recover PEG funding provided in 2017 shall not exceed $6.00 per subscriber per month. Any supplementary PEG fee levied by Comcast after January 1, 2018, to recover past undercollections shall be set at 0.5% of cable Gross Revenues through December 31, 2019. Any excess recovery shall be paid to the Commission at the same time as the Franchise Fee payment. 9. Regional Channel 6. Grantee shall designate Channel 6 for uniform regional channel usage to the extent required by law. 10. State and Federal Law compliance. Satisfaction of the requirements of this Section 6 satisfies any and all of Grantee's state and federal law requirements of Grantee with respect to PEG access. SECTION 7. NETWORKING PROVISIONS 1. Managed Network. The City and/or Commission has a need for a telecommunications network to connect certain government buildings in the North Suburban Territory for telecommunications services. Comcast or its Affiliate agrees to provide, operate,repair and maintain a managed telecommunications network to City and/or Commission for the Term of the Franchise in accordance with an executed Enterprise Services agreement, attached as Exhibits B, 19