Walker County, Ga., tag office clerk Linda Slater steps over license plates stacked on the floor in the new tag office building on McFarland Avenue in Rossville. The office opens today.Three weeks on the nose.
That’s how long it took Walker County, Ga., to replace a decrepit brick house at 2012 MacFarland Ave. in the Fairview community that, for years, served as the office where many residents in the northern part of the county got their vehicle tags.
“We are on schedule to be open today,” County Coordinator David Ashburn said Friday.
At 8 a.m. today, the tag office is expected to reopen in a double-wide modular building that previously served as a bank in Alabama.
County workers knocked down the old house on June 17, hauled it off to the landfill the next day, then poured a concrete pad to get ready for the delivery of the new building. The modular building, which has features the old building lacked such as a safe, a night deposit box and a drive-through window, got some last-minute fixes Friday. In one fix, AT&T connected the tag office’s computers with state computers in Atlanta, county officials said.