11/24/2009 10:11:00 PM
Local MVD office eludes closure
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The Daily Courier
PRESCOTT - The Arizona Department of Transportation plans to close 12 Motor Vehicle Division offices because of budget issues, but Yavapai County offices are not among them.
On Tuesday, ADOT announced that as a part of its attempt to resolve a $100 million budget deficit, it plans to close offices in Ajo, Benson, Bisbee, central Phoenix (28th Street), Clifton, East Mesa, Fredonia, Kearny, St. Johns, Superior, Willcox and Williams.
In all, the state has 61 MVD offices, including one in Prescott and one in Cottonwood. Neither office was on the list of closures.
According to an ADOT press release, the 12 offices up for closure serve a total of about 28,500 customers per month.
Along with the MVD closures, ADOT plans temporary suspension of operations at 13 highway rest areas; layoffs affecting 115 employees; and reductions to roadway maintenance and construction efforts.
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Posted: Thursday, November 26, 2009
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Discusted with the Countrys direction
Mikey, Prescitt Joe and Calling the Kettle Black, you hit it directly on the head. Darin sounds just like the herd of Liberals who can only think more money makes everything better.
Lower taxes and responsible spending by the over sized Government Agencies are long over due at all levels, Federal, State and local.
Posted: Wednesday, November 25, 2009
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Calling the Kettle Black
'No Name', you and many others always harp on AZ being near the bottom on education spending. They only problem with those types of facts is that they fail to take in to account that places like NY, DC and CA, who spend 3-4x more than AZ, have graduation rates lower than us (2006 NY state had 68% graduation, compared to our 70%). Liberals cannot accept that more money does not always equal more success.
Posted: Wednesday, November 25, 2009
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Prescitt Joe
darin, I agree with Mikey, your response sounds like you might be one of those 5 standing there doing nothing. Higher taxes won't help wastefull spending, Government needs to live within their means just like us common folks do. Look at CA and many other States who have gone wild with spending and taxing only to be BROKE. Your argument about AZ taxes being too low doesn't wash and makes you sound just like one of the idiots we now have in Washington who are driving the Country to go bankrupt.
Posted: Wednesday, November 25, 2009
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darin
dear mikey, the reality is, taxes are too low. telling someone to move to another state, will decrease the already incredibly low tax income of the state, furthering these deficits. go back to McCant land and be quiet in your little corner.
Posted: Wednesday, November 25, 2009
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Mikey
No-Name and Wasteful Stupidity, if you think Arizonas taxes are too low why don't you move to another State. I will give you an example of waste, I was on Iron Springs Rd the other day and witnessed ADOT putting up a road sign. There was one employee actually putting up the sign and another 5 just standing there talking. Besides that there were 3 vehicles parked along side them. What a waste of tax payers money.
Posted: Wednesday, November 25, 2009
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No name provided
Tax is a very dirty word here in AZ- they would rather reap tremedous harship on the citizens os the state than raise taxes to an appropriate level- remember AZ has one of the lowest tax structures in the nation- no wonder we have the distinction of the state having the most children living in poverty and almost dead last in educational spending.
Posted: Wednesday, November 25, 2009
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Wasteful Stupidity
What crazy mismanagement this state has. All these closures, hardships, and cutbacks, when a 1 or 2 cent sales tax would have just made the deficit go away, to say nothing of what could have been done by simply reinstating the property taxes that were cut TEMPORARILY before the recession. What a stupid waste.
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