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Committee to revisit official and outreach newspaper designations after supervisors seek broader ethnic press inclusion

San Francisco Board of Supervisors Budget and Finance Subcommittee · June 10, 2009
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Summary

The Office of Contract Administration recommended the San Francisco Examiner as the official newspaper and two outreach papers for specific communities, but supervisors sought to add multiple ethnic and community papers (SF Bayview, Sing Tao, World Journal, China Press, Bay Area Reporter, Bay Times, El Reportero, Chronicle/SFGate/Examiner allocations). The committee continued Items 7–8 one week to finalize inclusions and language.

The Office of Contract Administration presented recommendations for official and outreach newspapers for fiscal 2009–10 and summarized the competitive process driven by administrative code requirements. OCA’s evaluation produced a recommendation for the Examiner as the official newspaper and identified the Bay Area Reporter and El Reportero as responsive outreach papers for the…

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