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BMV closes, awaits relocation
By Laura Pelner
Assistant
City Editor
The Lafayette branch of the
Bureau of Motor Vehicles is closing again for three weeks until it is
relocated indefinitely.
The Lafayette branch, currently
located at 323 Columbia St. in Lafayette, will be relocated to a spot
in the Market Square shopping center on Elmwood Road in Lafayette. The
branch will move in three weeks and, until then, Lafayette customers
will have to travel to other area bureaus.
The Lafayette BMV was plagued
with problems for the past two months as it closed and reopened numerous
times because of employee complaints of sickness.
In mid-September the branch
closed because there were not enough employees to staff it — they
all had symptoms of a sickness they could not get rid of.
The branch reopened Sept.
25 and then closed again Oct. 4. The tests conducted in this time did
not find any conclusive evidence to shut down the Lafayette branch indefinitely,
so it reopened Oct. 25.
After being opened for only
a little over one hour on Oct. 25, the Lafayette Fire Department and
an emergency medical technician were called and the bureau building
was evacuated for the rest of the day.
The branch reopened on Oct.
26 and has been open for 15 days. Tests were conducted in the branch
during those days, and on Nov. 4 it was reported that an unknown substance
was found in an air duct in the branch.
Alvin Hayes, a spokesman
for the bureau, said on Nov. 7 that scientists were studying the material,
but that no one had gotten sick for four days.
The branch will be closed
until it is relocated to a building in the Market Square shopping center
later this month.
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CITY DESK PHONE:
(765) 743-1111
ext. 250
City editor: Erica
Sagon
Assistant city editor:
Laura Pelner
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