To the editor:

It’s 7:50 a.m. at the county’s auxiliary tag office at 27th and Iowa. I am first in line before the door opens at 8 a.m., and by then nine people have lined up behind me. It’s the last day for September renewals, and evidently I am not the only one who doesn’t want to give government their money any sooner than necessary. Upon moving inside the first clerk is already occupied providing renewals to another county employee working there. I walk up to the second clerk and she says, “Sorry, I’m not open; I have to go make the bank deposit.”

At 8:12 the first clerk is done with the other county employee and ready for me. The count of those waiting is now 14. Two people have already left in disgust. The one clerk is working as fast as she can but losing ground quickly.

Some might say this is what we all get for waiting until the last day to renew, and I wouldn’t argue with that. On the other hand, is it the most efficient use of county personnel taking a well-trained title clerk and pulling her off the counter at the opening bell on the busiest day of the month to make a bank deposit? I find it hard to fathom that there might not be a more suitable person in the treasurer’s office to make bank deposits. Maybe a supervisor? Perhaps even the county treasurer herself on the busiest day of the month, God forbid?

Dennis Reed,

Lawrence