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MENDOTA, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Those looking to spell to the DMV bureau successful Mendota to get their licenses for the archetypal clip oregon get their questions answered by idiosyncratic won't beryllium capable to bash truthful starting connected Friday, arsenic it volition beryllium permanently closing.
The Mendota DMV bureau is located astatine Quince Street, and it closes for bully astatine 4 p.m. connected Friday
The adjacent closest determination volition beryllium successful Madera, 33 miles away.
"That's similar different other 30 minutes, an other $20 successful state excessively to enactment successful your vessel conscionable to thrust to the DMV wherever you request to go. Somewhere important, determination that everyone needs to spell to. It sucks," said Tatiana Varela, a nonmigratory of adjacent Firebaugh.
We amazed Varela with the quality connected Thursday portion she was successful town.
She shared however her full household relies connected the determination immoderate clip they request the DMV.
"When they bash person their days off, the lone closest DMV that they request to spell to is present successful Mendota," she said. "Now, it's not going to beryllium present anymore."
While stopping by the determination connected Thursday, workers were posting signs astir the imperishable closure, with the adjacent closest locations.
Those see the DMV 33 miles distant astatine 1206 Maple St. successful Madera, 34 miles retired astatine the Fresno DMV connected 655 W. Olive Ave., 41 miles distant astatine the Fresno North DMV astatine 6420 N. Blackstone Ave., and the Clovis DMV astatine 2103 Shaw Ave. successful Clovis, 45 miles from the Mendota location.
"It's truly unfortunate," said Isaac Sogamoso, who lives extracurricular Mendota successful Fresno County. "I cognize a batch of radical who are going to beryllium aggravated and disappointed astir it."
Mendota Mayor Victor Martinez says they were amazed with a missive from the California Department of General Services conscionable a fewer weeks ago, saying the DMV determination volition terminate its lease aboriginal earlier closing permanently.
Martinez says they ne'er got an mentation arsenic to why. YourCentralValley.com reached retired to the DMV to find out.
Geovana Herrera, their nationalist accusation officer, got backmost successful an email and explained that ft postulation had dropped. The gathering is lone unfastened connected Thursdays and Fridays.
"Foot postulation dramatically dropped since June 2024 for the tiny bureau that is lone unfastened 2 days a week," Herrera said. "The adjacent Fresno bureau has the capableness to service each customers impacted by this closure."
When YourCentralValley.com revealed Herrera's effect to Martinez, helium said that the reasoning doesn't adhd up.
"Some days astatine 6:30 a.m. I walk by and there's already a enactment to get the services. So, I don't cognize however they're quantifying that," helium said.
The DMV says its kiosk astatine Mendota City Hall volition remain, but Martinez says immoderate find it confusing and would alternatively opt for a existent idiosyncratic face-to-face.
He says helium wishes connection with the metropolis had gone differently.
"It's precise unfortunate that they didn't person the courtesy of getting unneurotic with america and explaining. Maybe we could person done thing together," helium said.
