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Monday, June 14, 2010

This week, the license center moves from Hwy 10, to Ramsey Town Center.

Sakry of ABC Newspapers reports:

The current 1,970 square-foot Anoka County License Center at 6111 Highway 10 in Ramsey will be closing June 15 at 1 p.m., said Paula Anderson, license bureau manager.

Moving further west on Highway 10, the center will re-open at its new location on June 17, 8 a.m., at Ramsey City Hall, 7550 Sunwood Drive N.W., Suite A, she said.

Parking will be available at the new location in the Ramsey Municipal Parking ramp or on the street. The new location will give the license center more space for its customers as well as save taxpayers money, she said.

Although the new center will have 2,200 square feet plus shared common areas, it will save taxpayers roughly $5,000 to $6,000 per year, Anderson said.

It is a good idea for Ramsey. The Norman Castle's vastness, for which we can thank James Norman (now ensconced in Albert Lea), permits such sensible win-win measures. Staff and council should be given credit for working with the State to assure citizens gain a safer ingress-egress when needing to get new tabs. Highway 10 ingress and egress is a gamble for an accident, each and every time it has to be done.

For those wondering where the new office will be in the building, if you enter off Sunwood at the main enterance, (where they could move the Historic old City Hall on Hwy 47 into the atrium with still very much room to spare), it is toward the back, toward the police wing, but on the first floor just east of the city's reception desk.

The Sakry article has much more detail. So, have a look.