The Minnesota Senate votes tonight (5pm start) on 13 million dollars to continue work on the state’s troubled vehicle registration and licensing system, MN-LARS. Sponsor, Hutchinson Republican Scott Newman, says it’s meaningless at this point to blame anyone, and his objective: “Have a system in the end that the state of Minnesota can be proud of and that actually works.”
Newman’s bill would also require an independent review to determine if it’s more cost-effective to abandon problem-plagued MN-LARS, which has cost over 100 million dollars so far, and instead adapt commercially-available software to the state’s needs.