Yucaipa Municipal Code Art. XVIII Reporting Requirements

In addition to any other reports or documents required by the ordinance codified in this title, a franchisee shall maintain and provide all the following reports to the cable administrator within sixty (60) calendar days of the close of each calendar year unless otherwise stated.

(Ord. 205 § 3, 2001)

During the construction, installation, upgrade or rebuild phases, the franchisee shall submit a monthly progress report (due on the tenth day of each calendar month until this phase is completed) which describes the contractor’s progress during the previous month. At a minimum the report shall indicate:

The franchisee shall complete and submit on an annual basis a copy of the annual reporting form, and its required documentation. A franchisee shall additionally file the following reports annually with the city, no later than one hundred twenty (120) days after the end of a franchisee’s fiscal year: an audited financial statement, or a financial statement certified to be true, correct and complete by an authorized officer or representative of the franchisee, applicable to the cable system serving the city, including a detailed statement of all income and revenues, and expenses attributable to the operations of franchisee in the city during the preceding twelve (12) month period, a balance sheet, and the information currently specified in the FCC’s “chart of accounts” (see 47 C.F.R. § 76.924), and such additional information as the FCC may subsequently require in its “chart of accounts” or in other comparable provisions, and in no less detail than currently required by the FCC. Expenses, balance sheet accounts and statements of properties shall be prorated to the city based on the number of subscribers served by the franchisee in the city as of the end of the calendar year for which such report is prepared in relation to all subscribers served by such franchisee as of the end of such year for any integrated cable system or cable systems serving the city and other communities using common facilities, equipment, management and personnel.

(Ord. 205 § 3, 2001)

In the event the franchisee or its parent company, partnership or corporation publishes reports to shareholders, the city’s cable administrator shall receive copies when distributed. Any audited financial statements prepared for the franchisee, its parent company, partnership or corporation by a CPA shall also be provided promptly to the cable administrator.

(Ord. 205 § 3, 2001)

A copy of each of franchisee’s annual and other periodic public reports and those of its parent, subsidiary and affiliated corporations or partnerships and other entities, shall automatically be submitted to city within thirty (30) days of their issuance.

(Ord. 205 § 3, 2001)

All reports, filings, documents, responses and records required to be made available for inspection or to be submitted to the city by the franchisee under the ordinance codified in this title or the franchise agreement shall be provided by the franchisee to the city at the franchisee’s cost within the period required therefor.

(Ord. 205 § 3, 2001)

The cable administrator may maintain a record of the franchisee’s performance for the purposes of franchise administration and renewal as outlined in the cable act. Performance and compliance will be determined in part based on the information provided by the franchisee pursuant to the ordinance codified in this title and the franchise agreement.

(Ord. 205 § 3, 2001)