The Santa Monica Daily Press is being recommended to continue publishing legal notices for City Hall.
City Hall spent about $61,000 last year publishing the notices in the newspaper and estimates it will spend another $66,300 for the 2008-09 fiscal year.
The SMDP was founded in 2001 and was adjudicated as a newspaper of general circulation in Santa Monica in 2005.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on September 23, 2008. Read the original PDF.