{"id":88855,"date":"2025-12-15T18:35:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T18:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/88855\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T18:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T18:35:08","slug":"el-paso-county-leaders-discuss-solutions-to-vehicle-registration-delays-office-closures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/88855\/","title":{"rendered":"El Paso County leaders discuss\u00a0solutions to vehicle registration delays, office closures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) &#8212; El Paso County commissioners are looking to discuss concerns over tax office closures and transaction backlogs at County Tax Offices as Texas HB 718 continues to disrupt vehicle registrations, dealer sales, and access to public services.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kvia.com\/news\/el-paso\/2025\/12\/10\/westside-tax-office-closure-intensifies-debate-on-el-paso-county-resources\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">As ABC-7 reported on Dec. 10<\/a>, El Paso County\u2019s Westside Tax Office has been closed since Dec. 1, along with rotating single-day closures at other tax office locations.<\/p>\n<p>Tax Assessor-Collector Ruben Gonzalez is answering questions from Commissioners Court during Monday&#8217;s meeting about the current staffing situation.<\/p>\n<p>Gonzalez told ABC-7 last week the Westside office was shut down so it could be converted into a dedicated \u201cWeb-Dealer Hub,\u201d where staff can focus solely on processing\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kvia.com\/news\/texas\/2025\/09\/25\/county-tax-office-seeing-backlog-over-vehicle-registrations\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dealer title work now mandated under House Bill 718<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>ABC-7 will share updates on today&#8217;s discussion both on air and online.<\/p>\n<p>BE PART OF THE CONVERSATION<\/p>\n<p>KVIA ABC 7 is committed to providing a forum for civil and constructive conversation.<\/p>\n<p>Please keep your comments respectful and relevant. You can review our Community Guidelines by <a href=\"https:\/\/kvia.com\/station\/2022\/07\/15\/community-guidelines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">clicking here <\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you would like to share a story idea, please submit it <a href=\"https:\/\/kvia.com\/share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) &#8212; El Paso County commissioners are looking to discuss concerns over tax office closures&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-88855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}