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KITTITAS COUNTY
COMMISSIONER’S OFFICE
AGENDA STAFF REPORT
AGENDA DATE: February 4, 2020
ACTION REQUESTED: Approve a Notice of Call for Bids to Serve as the Official
County Newspaper from July 1, 2020 through June 30,
2021.
BACKGROUND: According to RCW 36.72.075 “at the first April meeting of the
County legislative authority, they shall award a contract to a legal
newspaper qualified under the section, to serve as the Official
County Newspaper, for the term beginning one year on the first
day of July following. When there are two or more legal
newspapers qualified under the provisions, the County shall
advertise at least five weeks before the meeting at which the bid is
awarded”.
INTERACTION: In accordance with RCW 36.72.075 an advertisement of the
opportunity to bid shall be mailed to all qualified legal newspapers
and shall be published once in the Official County Newspaper.
The Daily Record is currently serving as the Official County
Newspaper through June 30, 2020.
RECOMMENDATION:
Approve a Notice of Call for Bids to Serve as the Official County
Newspaper; to authorize the Clerk to publish said notice and to
send a copy of the Notice of Call for Bids to the Daily Record and
the Northern Kittitas County Tribune. Bids shall be accepted until
March 20, 2020 at 11:00 a.m. in the Commissioners office at
which time they will be opened and read aloud.
HANDLING: BOCC Staff to publish & post the legal notice.
BOCC Staff to send a copy of the legal notice to the Daily Record
& the Northern Kittitas County Tribune.
ATTACHMENTS: Notice of Call for Bids.
LEAD STAFF: Julie Kjorsvik, Clerk of the Board.