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Remodeled Southeast Branch of DMV complete

May 11th, 2012, 2:09 pm by

Expanded service and a spacious waiting area will greet customers Wednesday when the upper level of the Southeast Branch Motor Vehicle Office reopens 17 days ahead of schedule.

 

Newly remodeled upper level

 

The remodeling added a third counter for driver’s license service plus a larger and more

comfortable waiting area.

 
The reconfiguration of the Southeast Branch allows flexibility for more counters to be added if needed.

 
A portion of the upper level office will also be used as an Early Voting site for the November election.

 
The Southeast Branch, open from 8 .am. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, is at 5650 Industrial Place, near the intersection of Powers and Airport.

 

Previous smaller waiting area

The Southeast Branch is the busiest of the four Motor Vehicle offices offered in El Paso County. The other three locations are the main office at Citizens Service Center, 1675 W. Garden of the Gods Rd.; downtown at Centennial Hall, 200 S. Cascade; and north at Union Town Center, 8830 N. Union Blvd.

 

For more information, go to http://car.elpasoco.com/motorvehicle.

 

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Oregon staff studying Citizens Service Center

May 1st, 2012, 1:54 pm by

Like a prize steer at the county fair, the Citizens Service Center is on display to visitors this week.

A group from Jackson County, Ore., is in town to see what they can learn about El Paso County’s relatively new Citizens Service Center, 1675 W. Garden of the Gods.

“The biggest city in their county is Medford and they bought an old post office building, about 80,000 square feet, to consolidate their offices like we did,” said El Paso County Commissioner Sallie Clark. “Some staff from their county is studying how we did our one-stop shopping at CSC. They want to see how our layout works, how we combined most everything under one roof to create more efficiency.”

The county moved several offices that were scattered around town to CSC. Under that one big roof are Department of Human Services, Pikes Peak Workforce Center, El Paso County Public Health and the offices of the county Clerk, Treasurer and Assessor, along with a Motor Vehicle office.

“I think it’s working well,” Clark said, “especially if you don’t have a car. Everything is in one place so it can save time and effort.”

 

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New motor vehicle office needs customers

October 13th, 2011, 9:29 am by

 

Branch offices often have long wait times but not many people have discovered the new main office on Garden of the Gods Road.

Don’t have much time to renew your driver’s license or get license plates for your car?

The main headquarters of the Motor Vehicle Division, which is part of the El Paso County Clerk and Recorder’s Office, reopened Tuesday at its new location, a former Intel building at 1675 W. Garden of the Gods Road.

But on Wednesday afternoon, there were hardly any customers at the new office. And a quick look at “real-time” waits at the three branch offices that offer the same services on a smaller scale showed wait times up to more than an hour.

Many motor vehicle division transactions also can be done online. Click here to go to the motor vehicle website.

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