State won’t pay for DMV contract upgrade until it is done right… Connecticut? No Kansas
Certainly not … Over the past three decades, most of Connecticut’s health and human service programs were successfully shifted to community based non-profit providers. (The very social service agencies that are now being targeted for some of the deepest, most devastating but cuts in Governor Malloy and Lt. Governor’s new proposed state budget.]
But while the rush to hire expensive out-of-state consultants or privatize government services often produces a product that is more expensive and ridden with incompetence, waste and even fraud, Malloy and his administration have spent untold millions of dollars on just these types of efforts and contracts, often with disastrous results.
The problems associated with the Connecticut Department of Motor Vehicles effort to upgrade their computer system is but one such example.
IMPORTANT NOTE: In their new proposed state budget, Malloy and Wyman are now proposing to privatize additional services at the Department of Motor Vehicles and planning to end the requirement that motorists are up to date on paying their local car tax in order to register a vehicle. Malloy’s plan would leave Connecticut’s 169 towns twisting in the wind, left on their own to try and collect the property taxes that are due.
See: Democrats Malloy and Wyman stab state employees in the back – again – and again. (Wait, What?), Malloy Proposes Bill To Outsource Some DMV Services (CT Newsjunkie); Malloy: Speed DMV lines by shedding ‘collection agency’ role (CT Mirror) andMalloy Calls For DMV Legislation To Cut Wait Times (Hartford Courant)
It is almost as if the Malloy administration is dedicated to forcing cities and towns to raise State won't pay for DMV contract upgrade until it is done right… Connecticut? No Kansas - Wait What?: