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DMV staffing, remote work and IT requests raised during ITD budget hearing
Summary
Lawmakers pressed ITD about the Motor Vehicles Division’s staffing, temporary workstation arrangements and related IT and equipment funding requests during the department’s budget hearing.
Lawmakers pressed the Idaho Transportation Department about the Division of Motor Vehicles’ staffing, temporary office arrangements and several information‑technology enhancement requests during the JFAC transportation hearing.
DMV location and facilities: Budget analyst Brooke Dupree said the Motor Vehicles Division has 240 authorized full‑time positions and that staff manage driver licensing, vehicle registration, license plates and titles. Director Scott Stokes told the committee many DMV employees are distributed around the state: “If you told me about 60 or 70 belong to the ports of entry, so they're distributed around the state. The remaining are in headquarters office.”
Work arrangements and temporary facilities: Stokes said DMV has used temporary facilities on the Chinden campus and that some staff work remotely part‑week and use generic shared workspaces: “We have generic workspaces where they'll spend maybe 2 days at home and 2 days in DMV,” he said, adding ITD has performance metrics to track productivity in that arrangement.
IT and equipment requests: Dupree described FY26 replacement and IT requests for DMV, including $608,200 for replacement items (scales and similar) and $981,700 to replace IT equipment such as computers, scanners, switches and printers as recommended by the Office of Information Technology Services. Committee members also asked about a long‑running construction‑management software project that has evolved over several budget cycles and for which ITD estimated cumulative asks around $4 million; Stokes said development has proceeded more slowly than expected and some funds were repurposed to highway operations until the software is completed.
Committee follow‑up: Committee members requested a detailed list of software licenses and funding mechanisms, an accounting of where previously appropriated one‑time and ongoing monies were spent, and a clearer timeline for completing the outstanding software work.
Ending: ITD said it would work with members to produce a list of software applications, licensing costs and funding sources and to clarify the operational impacts of the temporary workstation setup in headquarters.
