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GAP-W10-BMV-3 NARROWED TO ITS DETAIL · THE BUREAU'S OWN PUBLICATION, READ WHOLE
The banked leg printed no closure, because no final order, testimony, or local coverage of the October 13, 2021 hearing had been found; the Bureau's own annual report for 2021, read whole, is the agency's outcome statement, and it closes the question of outcome. In its "Changes to Branch Operations" section, the Bureau's 2021 Annual Report (Commissioner Peter L. Lacy; published on the Bureau's own site) states: "Branch closures included Pendleton, Ellettsville, and Walkerton. These decisions are never easy but were made after thorough review of customer feedback and branch activity while keeping in mind the best use of state resources with continued great government service." Walkerton is counted by the Bureau itself among the branches it closed in 2021 — the consolidation the hearing proposed was carried out. The same report supplies the sequence around it: the autumn's staffing emergency brought temporary closures — "September brought eleven temporary closures while October brought eight" — and Walkerton stood among September's eleven (closed September 7 to October 2, 2021, with resumption announced for the week of October 3 in the Bureau's statements carried by the Gannett papers), before the October 13 hearing and the permanent decision the annual report records. The leg's outer window for the end of the staffed counter — between the October 2021 hearing and the building's gift to the historical society in 2022 — therefore narrows: on the Bureau's own showing, the closure was a 2021 event, effected after the hearing. What this section does not settle, and prints as still open: the exact last day the Roosevelt Road counter served a customer; the hearing's testimony and any written final order as a separate document (no such document stands in the Bureau's online postings as reached; the Bureau's hearing file remains the settler); and the successor-presence question of GAP-W10-BMV-4 — the part-time agency and BMV Connect kiosk the directories carry at Roosevelt Road into later years — on which the annual report is silent and the banked leg's directory-grade printing stands untouched. One postscript completes the consolidation's own story: the receiving branch did not long outlive the branch it absorbed. The Indianapolis Business Journal reported in September 2022 that the Nappanee branch — 219 West Market Street, the destination named in the Walkerton hearing notice — would cease operations on October 28, 2022, a kiosk installed in its place. The consolidation's destination survived Walkerton's counter by about a year.
Principal sources: Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles, 2021 BMV Annual Report (in.gov; read whole, November 2026); Gannett/IndyStar, September 8, 2021, and WBAT, September 9, 2021 (the eleven temporary closures); Indianapolis Business Journal, September 29, 2022 (the Nappanee closure).