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n rL) KITTITAS COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS AGENDA STAFF REPORT AGENDA DATE April7,2026 ACTION REQUESTED: Request to approve a Resolution to Award a Bid & Contract to Serve as the Official County Newspaper from 7l1126 - 6130/27 . BACKGROUND: Staff published a Notice of Call for Bids to serve as the Official County Newspaper beginning July 1, 2026, through June 30, 2021. The Commissioners office Staff published the Call for Bids and sent a letter with a copy of the notice to the Daily Record and the Northern Kittitas County Tribune. Sealed Bids were received from the Daily Record and the Northern Kittitas County Tribune, and they were opened on Thursday March 26,2026, at2:00 p.m. in the Commissioner's office. According to RCW 36.72.075 the county legislative authority shall award the contract to the best and lowest responsible bidder, giving consideration to the question or circulation in awarding the contract, with a view to giving publication of notices the widest publicity INTERACTION: DAILY RECORD BID: Legal Advertising - based on a 6-column format: $9.00 per column inch. According to the Daily Record their rates are 32o/o lower than their published legal advertising rates of $13.25 extended to all general legal notice advertisers as noticed on their published rate card. They have the highest reach and circulation of newspapers in Kittitas County. Their average paid daily circulation is 2, 100. They publish legal notices three days a week in print on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Legal notices appear on their website (www.DaillrRecordNews.com) at no additional charge and their website is one of the top viewed websites in the county and garners an average of 150,000 pageviews per month, and is updated daily. Legal notices submitted to them are also published on the Washington Newspaper Publisher Association (www.wapublicnotices. com), with no additional charge. NORTHERN KITTITAS COUNTY TRIBUNE BID: Legal Advertising - based on a per column inch for first insertion date is $1 1.50 and $10.50 per column inch for subsequent insertions of the same legal notice. Their single-column width measures 1.67-inches with 6-columns across per page. The NKCT publishes once a week on Thursday and their average total paid circulation is 2,200. Of that, 7,730 are purchased within Kittitas County, primarily Upper County each week (ex: mailed to subscribers, local business news stands and vending boxes), thus the public notices would be viewed by over 4,375 readers each week. The legal notices are