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KITTITAS COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS <br />AGENDA STAFF REPORT <br /> <br />AGENDA DATE: April 5, 2022 <br /> <br />ACTION REQUESTED: Request to approve a Resolution to Award a Bid & <br />Contract to Serve as the Official County Newspaper from <br />7/1/22 – 6/30/23. <br /> <br /> <br />BACKGROUND: Staff published a Notice of Call for Bids to serve as the Official <br />County Newspaper beginning July 1, 2022, through June 30, 2023. The Commissioners <br />office Staff published the Call for Bids and sent a letter with a copy of the notice to the <br />Daily Record and the Northern Kittitas County Tribune. <br /> <br />Sealed Bids were received from the Daily Record and the Northern Kittitas County <br />Tribune, and they were opened on Friday March 25, 2022, at 12:00 p.m. in the <br />Commissioner’s office. <br /> <br />According to RCW 36.72.075 the county legislative authority shall award the contract to <br />the best and lowest responsible bidder, giving consideration to the question or circulation <br />in awarding the contract, with a view to giving publication of notices the widest publicity. <br /> <br />INTERACTION: <br /> <br />DAILY RECORD BID: <br /> <br />Legal Advertising – based on a 6-column format: $9.00 per column inch. <br /> <br />According to the Daily Record they have the highest reach and circulation of newspapers <br />in Kittitas County. Their average paid daily circulation is 4,400. They publish legal <br />notices four days a week and online, Tuesday – Thursday and Saturday. Legal notices <br />appear online at no additional charge and their website averages 142,000 page views a <br />month and is updated daily. Legal notices are also published online at no charge at both <br />the www.DailyRecordNews.com and www.wapublicnotices.com through the Washington <br />Newspaper Publisher Association. <br /> <br /> NORTHERN KITTITAS COUNTY TRIBUNE BID: <br /> <br />Legal Advertising – based on a per column inch for first insertion date is $10.00 <br />and $9.00 per column inch for subsequent insertions of the same legal notice. <br />Their single-column width measures 1.67-inches with 6-columns across per page. <br /> <br />The NKCT publishes once a week on Thursday and their average total paid circulation is <br />2,445. Of that, 2,000 are purchased within Kittitas County, primarily Upper County each <br />week (ex: mailed to subscribers, local business news stands and vending boxes), thus the <br />public notices would be viewed by over 6,113 readers each week. The legal notices are <br />also posted online and at www.wapublicnotices.com each week. <br /> <br /> <br />