HUTCHINSON, Kan. — The Board of County Commissioners on Tuesday will discuss potential Requests for Proposal to designate an official Reno County newspaper.
According to agenda documents, the State of Kansas requires the publication of various documents, such as legal notices, county resolutions, quarterly financial statements, and the notice of county public hearings.
This list of publications is not all inclusive of the requirements. The Hutchinson News is currently the newspaper for official county publications.
Below is the proposed RFP:
Reno County is requesting qualifications and pricing for a newspaper to serve as the official county newspaper. Once designated the official county newspaper shall serve until such time as the governing body designates a different newspaper.
The requirements to be designated as official county newspaper are set out in K.S.A. 64-101 and are as follows:
1. The newspaper must be published at least 50 times each year and has been so published for at least one year prior to the publication of any official county publication.
2. The newspaper must be entered at the post office in the Reno County as periodical class mail matter.
3. The newspaper must have general paid circulation in Reno County on a daily, weekly, or yearly basis and is not a trade, religious, or fraternal publication.
4. The newspaper must be published in Reno County.
Newspapers shall respond with documentation that they meet the requirements and pricing by the Reno County Commissioners on or before _____________, 2023 to be considered as a candidate to be the Reno County Official newspaper.
The reason there is not yet a return date in the proposal is because it is still possible for the governing body to table the idea to a future meeting or to not send out the RFP at all.
The Board of County Commissioners meets Tuesday at 9 a.m. in the Veterans Room of the Reno County Courthouse.
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