The Muncie Star Press has an editorial entitled BMV’s plan logical, but slowdown needed. The editorial supports BMV commissioner Silverman in theory, but criticizes him on style points, saying that he’s moving too fast and needs to fine tune the process by listening to constituents and working better with legislators. The editorial points out the obvious money to be saved by closing offices. It also points out that the BMV has been a source of pork over the years.
But then the paper goes on to complain about closings in the general area of Muncie. This is exactly why Silverman needs to minimize legislative interaction and public hearings. Every legislator and every member of the public thinks that the system is wasteful generally but a great investment in their locality. It’s not their branch that’s the problem. It’s someone else’s. So long as Silverman is acting impartially on the basis of data and realistic assumptions about how a BMV branch should work and how many people it can serve in a reasonably expeditious manner, he should just make his command decision and let the chips fall where they may.
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