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12 <br /> shall be that contained in the December 1986 proposal of grantee. <br /> Air time shall be provided free of charge to everyone except <br /> "for-profit" entities and declared political candidates. Fees <br /> may be charged for equipment and labor supplied by grantee in <br /> assisting persons in developing programming, except that no <br /> charge shall be made for live studio cable casts of five minutes <br /> or less by public access users or for the broadcasts of such <br /> special events as are designated by the board of commissioners of <br /> the county. <br /> C. Not later than the third year after the acceptance of <br /> this franchise, grantee shall complete all work necessary to <br /> fully activate its system bi-directional from the site of the <br /> "old" and "new" Orange County courthouses. Thereafter grantee <br /> shall provide at its cost live coverage of all regularly <br /> scheduled board of county commissioners' meetings held in either <br /> the old or the new Orange County courthouses . Alert shall <br /> provide onsite at each such meeting the personnel and equipment <br /> necessary to ensure that the viewer receives a satisfactory audio <br /> and visual transmission of all proceedings before the board of <br /> county commissioners. Grantee may satisfy the requirement in <br /> this subsection for bi-directional capability with contracts with <br /> other franchised cable operators in the county which contracts <br /> provide for the free-to-the-county live coverage of board of <br /> county commissioners ' meetings from the old and new courthouses. <br /> Any such contract or contracts shall be for a term or terms <br /> extending for the duration of this franchise and any extensions <br /> of this franchise. At the end of the second year following <br />