After nearly 30 years on Murdock Street, the Sedgwick County tag office in downtown Wichita is moving west.
The Murdock location will close at 5 p.m. on Friday and open at Douglas and Meridian inside the former Dillons store on Monday at noon.
“We are going to move all weekend long and we’ll have everything set up," says Sedgwick County Treasurer Linda Kizzire. "We’ll have clerks at the location early. We’ve got to test all the computers, the software, make sure everything is going to be operational before we open the doors to the public.”
Kizzire says that for years the downtown tag office has dealt with cramped conditions and very limited parking. The current location has just 32 parking spaces; at the new building, they'll have 139.
"Currently, staff park several blocks away and have to walk to work as do the public, because that parking lot fills up very quickly," she says. "And now everyone will be able to park in a parking lot."
The Kansas Highway Patrol will also have an office at the new location to conduct vehicle inspections.
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