NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee conducted his Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Hearings on Tuesday, reviewing a wide range of requests from department leaders across the state.
The Department of Safety and Homeland Security asked for funds to improve bandwidth and driver services centers across the state, after department leaders said bad internet had prevented centers from being able to process licenses.
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“We’ve had centers actually shut down during the day because they don’t have enough bandwidth of internet to carry the system and to issue driver’s licenses across the state, and it shuts down; it stops all the traffic in those centers. So we’re trying to increase the amount of that so we have a better system,” Commissioner and Governor’s Homeland Security Advisor Jeff Long said.
DHS leaders also requested more than $5 million to help give drivers services employees step raises, amid those workers experiencing a 21% turnover rate…