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Treasurer asks board to weigh adding out-of-county convenience fee; board requests three-month data collection
Summary
Winneshiek County Treasurer Tim Smart proposed charging a $10 county convenience fee on out-of-county driver’s license transactions. Supervisors expressed mixed views and asked the Treasurer to track out-of-county issuance and property ownership for three months before deciding.
Winneshiek County Treasurer Tim Smart presented a proposal to charge a $10 county convenience fee for out-of-county driver’s-license transactions, saying the fee would offset processing time the county pays for when nonresident customers use local staff time.
Smart said the fee option is authorized to counties and estimated about 300 out-of-county issuance transactions annually in Winneshiek County. “It’s something that the counties have the option to charge for,…
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