Franklin County Commissioners will hold a special meeting on Friday 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. 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 Apalachicola Times is challenging whether the Chronicle meets the legal qualifications to publish legal ads. The issue now is whether the currently published Chronicle newspaper is actually a continuation of the previous Franklin Chronicle newspaper or whether it just has a similar name.
The county had planned to hold a quasi-judicial hearing on the protest last Tuesday, but postponed it after the county attorney said he needed to collect more information from the publisher of the now defunct Franklin Chronicle newspaper before moving forward.
The hearing has now been scheduled for this Friday afternoon at 1:15 the Franklin County Courthouse Annex in Apalachicola.
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