Agenda item

Newspaper Advertising Costs

Minutes:

Decisions:

 

1.    That a contract be put in place with the Evening Post to cover the advertising of Public Notices at a rate of £9 per column centimetre in the Evening Post and the Courier for the Financial Year 2015/16;

 

2.    That Officers continue work to reduce the word count of Notices and the space which they occupy;

 

3.    That Officers look to ensure that the placing of advertisements be better coordinated in order to ensure that the Authority gets the maximum benefit from the contract;

 

4.    That the contract be subject to a tendering exercise for the financial years following 2015/16.

 

Reason for Decisions:

 

To secure the lawful advertising of Public Notices and to generate a saving for the Council.

 

Implementation of Decisions:

 

The decisions will be implemented after the three day call in period.