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10:00 a.m.
JEFFERSON COUNTY
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
AGENDA REQUEST
TO: Board of County Commissioners
Philip Morley, County Administrator
FROM: Leslie Locke, Executive Assistant
DATE: March 6, 2017
SUBJECT: BID OPENING re: Publication of County Legal Notices
STATEMENT OF ISSUE:
BID OPENING re: Publication of County Legal Notices
Call for Bids was approved by the Commissioners on January 9, 2017. Per RCW 36.72.075 the County must
designate an Official County Newspaper on or before their first Regular Meeting in April. Bidders must have
five weeks to prepare and submit their bids to the Clerk of the Board.
RECOMMENDATION:
Open Bids received for Publication of County Legal Notices
REVIEWED BY:
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Philip Orley, ounty Administrator Date
RCW 36.72.075: Official county newspaper. Page 1 of 1
RCW 36.72.075
Official county newspaper.
At its first April meeting, the county legislative authority shall let a contract to a legal
newspaper qualified under this section to serve as the official county newspaper for the term
of one year beginning on the first day of July following. If there be at least one legal
newspaper published in the county, the contract shall be let to a legal newspaper published in
the county. If there be no legal newspaper published in the county, the county legislative
authority shall let the contract to a legal newspaper published in an adjacent county and
having general circulation in the county.
When two or more legal newspapers are qualified under the provisions of this section to
be the official county newspaper, the county auditor shall advertise, at least five weeks before
the meeting at which the county legislative authority shall let the contract for the official county
newspaper, for bid proposals to be submitted by interested qualified legal newspapers.
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 advertisement may designate
the form which notices shall take, and may require that the successful bidder provide a bond
for the correct and faithful performance of the contract.
The county legislative authority shall let the contract to the best and lowest responsible
bidder, giving consideration to the question of circulation in awarding the contract, with a view
to giving publication of notices the widest publicity.
[1977c34§2.]
http://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=36.72.075 2/27/2017