Franklin County Commissioners have scheduled a hearing for April the 20th to hear protest over a recent bid award.
The Apalachicola Times newspaper filed the protest after the county commission awarded the Chronicle newspaper the bid to publish this year’s delinquent tax rolls in May. The Chronicle was awarded the contract last month after providing the lowest bid for the work – the county will pay the newspaper 14 cents a line for the three weeks that delinquent tax rolls have to be published. The Apalachicola Times provided a cost of 20 cents per line.
At the time the bids were awarded Times editor David Adlerstein said he felt the bids were not exactly fair since the Times has a higher readership than the Chronicle – but the commission went with the Chronicle anyway. Now the parent company of the times is challenging whether the Chronicle meets the legal qualifications to publish legal ads.
The county commission will hold a quasi-judicial hearing on the matter after their next county commission meeting on April the 20th.
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