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seamusTX wrote: As to your teenager coming home late, it's partly a matter of intent. If she was delayed by a traffic jam or some such event beyond her control, it's different from just blowing off the curfew.

LOL, she still will be grounded for a year. OK, maybe not a year, 6 months. Well, maybe not 6 months but 3 months for sure. Ahh hell, who am I kidding, she'll bat those eyes at me and I'm as much a threat to her as a sheep to a wolf.

Jim, I'd like to thank you. Way too often these exchanges get out of control and go way off topic. I think its safe to say we agree on some issues and agree to disagree on others. Your thoughts are well formed, delivered, and accountable. What impresses me the most is that you are comfortable enough to answer a question with "I don't know". I respect that and it speaks volumes to me.

Like you, I've noticed through my reading of this forum that some wait times have gotten better but it is far from consistent and for the most part not within the allotted 60 days. I'm torn on how I really feel about that. Its a positive step but..... If I tell my teenager to be home at midnight, she comes in at 1am. The next year after she gets off restriction ( ) I tell her to be home at midnight and she comes home at 12.30am should I be happy?

I suppose I'll go wait in the corner for my 60 days before rattling the cage. I will be asking for answers from my representatives on day 61.

Keith,

Back at ya!

I can agree with a lot of what you are saying but I don't accept it. Yes, money can be reallocatted and if it has been as you indicated then what issues that were brought up as the cause of the delays in that meeting not being addressed? Did they not allocate enough? Was it misallocatted? What are the results after one year of identifying many of the problems for the bottle necking?

I'm not argueing and I hope it doesn't come across as such. I'm a pretty straight forward result oriented type. Lived my 50+ years not making excuses and expect my government to be accountable to me/you/us, their employer. I've seen no accountability. IMO, unacceptable. Even if they would just come out and say "Hey, we realize we have a problem but because we don't have the money to address it for another year or two the problem will become worse sooner than better" at least they're holding themselves accountable. It might not be what we want to hear but I respect honesty much more than passing the buck or pointing fingers.

I'm not so sure I agree, i think it really is that simple. Hopefully my post didn't come across as this is a "DPS" only issue as clearly other agencies are involved but the solution is to assign the proper manpower to the problem regardless of what department or agency that the shortage is creating the bottle neck.

Totally agree that this is a legislature issue and my post was more about poking fun at how after a year of identifying the issues of the backlog they have been unable, and more likely disinterested, in correcting it. I for one am not impressed with passing the buck. If this issue was a few weeks old or even a few months old I would be much more understanding.

seamusTX wrote:

oldguy wrote:...my question is how many clerks do they have, how many applications have they received in last 6 months,...

I don't know the exact answers to those questions -- the information is not published. But the House Law Enforcement Committee held hearings a year ago on why CHL applications were being processed more slowly than statute prescribed. It came out that there are about 50 DPS employees in Austin who work solely on CHL applications, and they receive over 8,000 applications a month.

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Interesting..... assuming we have 20 work days a month and 40 DPS employees along with 12 temps working on applications, as stated in the above link, and taking into account that I'm not as smart as those people in Austin , that averages out to between 7-8 applications a day per person. Seems pretty simple to me..... establish the average employee time it takes to process an application and assign the proper manpower.

Now I figured that out in about 5 minutes. I see the meeting in that link was done a year ago. A YEAR AGO? Wow, they must really be working hard on the solution.