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Controlling Board approves $1.2M Secretary of State media buy and temporary website project manager

State Controlling Board · December 1, 2025
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The State Controlling Board approved two Secretary of State contracts: a $1.2 million public-awareness media campaign awarded to Orgo Branding and a temporary project-management contract to support a larger website overhaul by Hansen Incorporated; board members pressed for distribution and oversight details.

The State Controlling Board on Dec. 1 approved two contracts for the Ohio Secretary of State's office: a $1.2 million public-service announcement media campaign and a temporary project-management contract for a website overhaul.

Leslie Piatt, chief financial officer for the Office of the Ohio Secretary of State, told the board the winning vendor for the PSA work, Orgo Branding, proposed a campaign budget she described in the RFP as "dollars 1,200,000.0 total for the entire year of 2026" that would span radio, streaming, paid social, digital display, pre-roll video and print in six major newspapers. Piatt said the RFP…

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