HISTORY & PURPOSE > First published in American papers in early 1700s > Play a critical role in alerting the public to the actions of their government > Newspapers provide a neutral, third-party means of communication and adequate notice to the public > Newspapers and newspaper websites are most accessible and understandable medium > Provide a third-party check to government transparency in permanent record. By doing so, newspapers service both the public — giving them easy, affordable, permanent and one-stop access to government reports — and government — giving , which protects them from accusations of not releasing e them a third-party check, proper information or having their systems hacked and their information changed.TYPES OF PUBLIC NOTICES « Publically Supported Notices > Elections, ordinances, financials, taxes, delinquent tax list, etc. + Privately Supported Notices >Property sales, foreclosures, unclaimed/abandoned property, water rights, etc. = Court Notices > Notice to creditors, name change, summons, etc.PUBLIC NOTICE PROCESS ME us;CITIZEN REACH: NEWSPAPER PRINT CIRCULATION AND READERSHIP Sterling Journal-Ravocato Circulation Readership craig tro =a once lichen dpe Goat tense Durango Herd Pueble Chieftain gsio 142773 & — Boulder Daly Camera ia Baws CS FoXCoineComdoca U0 ans : _ Durango Hen sow 18870 aan Craig Press 2,382 8,801 pushin Cistan SNNNNE ——_‘StestingJournalRavocate 16e0 3.804 ™ Readership = CirculationWebsite traffic average of six months from August 2017 to January 2018, a5 xeported by SimiliarWeb. Some cities and counties did not receive enough website traffic to be calculable by SimiliarWeb and/or their domain is housed by the state making CIYIZEN REACH: NEWSPAPER, CITY, COUNTY AND STATE oe shana icy meme to sreatcomnan aioe Cote re ame sao Goya poe moe shceomr Pd atc cant ssn Siyseacanme toe cmon som esterday amen ese Siyarnaeee pre soe un enw eget sss Satna a Shnecomy Set che cetain sans Siparmeio aa eet ee them incalculable by SimiliaxWeb. WEBSITE TRAFFIC Colorado Governments keeping you informed ‘olnow mare adhe pubcnaticns Tntodeysrmeepe’ 912CITIZEN REACH: DENVER AND STATE WEBSITE TRAFFIC Denver Post website traffic almost 13x more than city and county of Denver, and 4x more than state of Colorado’s website traffic.“ CITIZEN REACH: WEBSITE TRAFFIC BY LARGEST NEWSPAPER AND CITY, COUNTY oe, Lop s (hatha o PES oo o* teCITIZEN REACH: PRINT READERSHIP + WEBSITE TRAFFIC ore Santer Bcemoncs ae oe = Print Readership Secing eur Advocate NS “Uric 7S Website Traffic Count = Website TrafficPUBLIC NOTICE EXPENDITURES BY CITY 2017 Colorado Springs ( Denver «ssn (0.002%) (0.004%) PN Expenditure WTotal Budget tice expenditures provided by city. Base et data taken from city’s budget.PUBLIC NOTICE EXPENDITURES BY COUNTY 2017 7 Boulder 313,794 (0.03%) x0 (0.009%) Total Badge!POTENTIAL COSTS IF COUNTIES PLACED PUBLIC NOTICES ON THEIR WEBSITES RATHER THAN IN NEWSPAPERS > Counties may have to purchase a site that can handle this type of html upload. > Counties may have to pay someone to create the site. > Once the site is setup, counties will have to format the report into html. They will have to add the documents with title to their website, and they will have to run reports upon request. This (akes »taff time, which has an expense. > Counties would lose third party verification.P ‘THE DENVER Post SR ree rere oe en ~ Extranet “Ue = opuien> Pose” aati Gomer wane mene roumes.couomeoroimes Colorado Divide: digital age Just 77 percent of rural households have acess to high-speed internet, state broadband ofc says + 32% of rural Coloradoans do not have Online Access . access to high-speed Internet Saguache County has “the worst Internet in America” with only an estimated 5.6% of adults with broadband. Colorado's broadband map shows vast stretches of the state — especially on the Eastern Plains and across the mountains — with slow to no internet service. Broadband gaps threaten to leave rural areas in the dust of tlie rece pee ene= FF) Along with being printed in newspapers and on newspaper websites, all legal newspapers in Colorado post public notices to Public Notice Colorado, which is a free, user-friendly way for Coloradans to get public “notices from around the on topics that mattery COLORADO, CEMENTS SEAGCR SMARTER WITH SMART SEARCH AND LET OURSYSTEM DO THE WORK rOR Ou!