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County funds only 2 new spots for DMV

Lines of people waiting to be served at Kootenai County's driver's license and Department of Motor Vehicles offices have become common in recent years.This line formed outside the county's newly renovated DMV office in Post Falls last month on the first day it opened. (Brian Walker/Coeur d'Alene Press)
By D.F. Oliveria daveo@spokesman.com(509) 319-0354
Lines of people waiting to be served at Kootenai County's driver's license and Department of Motor Vehicles offices have become common in recent years.This line formed outside the county's newly renovated DMV office in Post Falls last month on the first day it opened. (Brian Walker/Coeur d'Alene Press)
Lines of people waiting to be served at Kootenai County's driver's license and Department of Motor Vehicles offices have become common in recent years.This line formed outside the county's newly renovated DMV office in Post Falls last month on the first day it opened. (Brian Walker/Coeur d'Alene Press)

County officials appear bent on a balancing act between two Kootenai County driver’s license bureaus.

The decision to re-open a Kootenai County driver’s license bureau in Post Falls after 20 years is an attempt to relieve those notorious long wait lines in downtown Coeur d’Alene.

With the Post Falls bureau expected to open in mid-August in the former DMV space on Railroad Avenue, county leaders are wrestling with questions on staffing and hours of operation to have both it and the Coeur d’Alene office open.

The quagmire comes after two new positions were approved in this year’s budget, although four new positions were requested/ Brian Walker , Coeur d’Alene Press. More here.

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