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Committee recommends splitting official and outreach advertising between Examiner and Chronicle; outreach papers named
Summary
After presentations and public testimony from newspaper representatives and labor, the committee amended the purchasing recommendations and will send items designating official and outreach newspapers to the full Board, splitting type 1/type 2 between the San Francisco Examiner and the Chronicle and assigning outreach newspapers for Hispanic, Chinese and African-American communities.
The Budget and Finance Committee on June 18 reviewed the city's annual contracts for official and outreach advertising (Items 5'8) and moved to send the four items to the full Board as a committee report with amendments to split type 1 and type 2 advertising between the San Francisco Examiner and the San Francisco Chronicle.
Bill Jones of the Purchasing Office explained the sealed-bid points-based evaluation and said the Examiner scored highest on responsiveness and cost for type 2 advertising. He…
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