Who determines the timing and amounts of contributions to the advertising cooperative for my Azal Coffee franchise?

In addition, we may require an advertising cooperative to be formed and operated in an Advertising Area. If the Franchise Business is within that designated Advertising Area, you must join, maintain a membership in, and sign and abide by the cooperative agreement for the advertising cooperative in that Advertising Area. Each advertising cooperative must adopt a cooperative agreement governing the organization and operation of the advertising cooperative. If specified by us, the cooperative agreement must require contributions to the advertising cooperative to be paid to us or to the advertising cooperative by electronic funds transfer. We must approve the structure of the advertising cooperative as well as the cooperative agreement and any changes to that agreement. The cooperative agreement must be submitted to us for prior approval. If we have not approved the cooperative agreement in writing within fourteen (14) days after receipt, the cooperative agreement will be deemed not approved. If the members of the advertising cooperative do not adopt and sign an approved cooperative agreement within thirty (30) days after we designate the Advertising Area for the advertising cooperative, the advertising cooperative must adopt and you must sign our then current recommended cooperative agreement. The cooperative agreement cannot modify the terms of this Agreement but may require you to make contributions to the advertising cooperative in addition to any marketing fund contributions you are required to make to us. You must make contributions to the advertising cooperative at the times and in the amounts as determined by the advertising cooperative. Each Store in the advertising cooperative (including Stores operated by us or our affiliates) will have one vote on matters before the advertising cooperative. Decisions will be made as provided in the cooperative agreement, or if not otherwise specified, based on a majority of the votes entitled to be cast by the members of the advertising cooperative. Any franchisee holding an officer, management, executive or committee position with the advertising cooperative must be a franchisee-in-good-standing as defined in Section 8.15. The administration, costs, and expenses of each advertising cooperative will be the responsibility of the advertising cooperative. The advertising cooperative will be responsible for the collection of contributions from its members and we will not be responsible to you if other franchisees in the advertising cooperative fail to pay contributions or to otherwise abide by the cooperative agreement or the decisions of the advertising cooperative. We will have the authority to form, change, dissolve or merge advertising cooperatives.

Source: Item 22 — CONTRACTS (FDD page 51)