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County: San Angelo Car Sales Have Gone Through The Roof

The fresh car lot at Jim Bass Ford just off the Houston-Harte in San Angelo. (LIVE! Photo/Joe Hyde)

By Matt McDaniel | Apr. 23, two thousand fourteen 8:53 am

Tom Green County Tax Assessor-Collector Becky Robles says car sales in the county have enhanced dramatically and her office is way behind on processing title transfers for local dealers.

She came to the Commissioner’s Court to ask for overtime money that will permit her staff to work extra hours.

Robles spinned a lidded-white cart with squeaky wheels up to the podium as a visual aid to showcase the Court how far behind they are on paperwork, which dealers need to finish the sales process.

“I don’t know if it’s because of the oil boom or tax refunds, but sales have gone through the roof lately,” she said.

Last year the County realized $20,162,169.99 from sales tax on automobiles. During the very first quarter of this year the County has taken in $ Five,466,910, which is $ 679,985 more than the very first quarter of 2013.

Commissioner Ford asked why the dealers no longer do the paperwork themselves, as was the case years ago, and Robles informed him that when the state switched over to a fresh system the auto sellers determined they didn’t want the extra hassle.

Robles said there are more than one hundred dealerships in the county, and in order to treat everyone identically, title transfers that can’t be ended on the spot are placed in the box for processing later when time permits.

She said the clerks in her office have the thirteen stations used to process these forms running full-tilt every day, so she needs employees to stay after hours in order to process the backlog.

“It only takes a few minutes per form, but when we are waiting on customers and the phones are ringing all day, it’s a challenge.”

The stations are allotted by the state based on population, so the office can’t get more, and they are still short-handed following personnel switches after the passing of longtime Assessor-Collector Cindy Jetton in January.

County Judge Steve Floyd estimated that there was a few million dollars’ worth of commerce in the box and the Court approved $460 in extra funds to help Robles’ office get caught up.

Other Business:

• The Court accepted $462,441 from TxDOT’s County Transportation Infrastructure Project Fund.

The county must allocate twenty percent of the total from local funds, which comes to $92,489, according to County Auditor Nathan Cradduck, and the County’s portion will be taken from the General Fund’s contingency column.

The County’s 4-H program will be getting fresh archery ranges at the Shooting Sports Sophisticated. The Court approved a plan to build one static and one 3D range and the group expects to receive grant money for the project so it will not cost the local government any money.

4-H officials said they checked with the insurance agent and found no confinements that would hinder the project. The group has been using the Concho Valley Archery Range off of Crimson Bluff Road.

The county-wide burn ban remains in place.

Voting Centers: Vona McKerly said Lubbock County was the very first in the state to make the switch to Voting Centers and representatives from the panhandle county will be in town on Friday to make a presentation and discuss developing a protocol for the changover at the McNease Convention Center’s South Room from eleven a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (500 Rio Concho Drive).

McKerley said Town Hall meetings have been set to discuss the fresh idea in each precinct, and once they are ended a public hearing will be scheduled in accordance with the Secretary of State’s requirements.

The schedule is for Town Hall meetings are as goes after:

Commissioner Hoelscher—Precinct 1

Tues. May 13, seven p.m., Station 618, six hundred eighteen S. Chadbourne Street

Commissioner deCordova—Precinct Two

Thurs. May 8, seven p.m., Southgate Church of Christ, five hundred twenty eight Country Club Road

Commissioner Bacon—Precinct Three

Mon. April 28, seven p.m., Very first Assembly of God Church, one thousand four hundred forty two Edmund Blvd.

Tues. April 29, seven p.m., Grape Creek ISD Admin. Bldg., eight thousand two hundred seven US Hwy eighty seven N

Commissioner Bacon said the Flood Plain issue will also be discussed.

Commissioner Ford—Precinct Four

Tues. May 6, six p.m., Christoval Community Center, twenty thousand twenty two Main Street, Christoval

Thurs. May 13, seven p.m., St. Luke United Methodist, two thousand seven hundred eighty one W. Avenue ‘N’

For more information: Tom Green County Elections Office — 325-659-6541

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