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April 7, 2008

Silva won't take DMV chief's post after all

About 2 1/2 months after it was announced he was chosen for the post, Anthony J. Silva of Cumberland has decided not to become the head of state Division of Motor Vehicles. The search for a new DMV chief resumes.

Gary Sasse, the state Department of Revenue director, announced this evening "with deep regret" that Silva declined the job, which has a new title of associate director of state revenue services.

“I understand that Mr. Silva has personal and family reasons for declining to take the post,” Sasse said in the statement. “While I am disappointed, I am certain that we will soon have a new associate director in place.”

The position will include the duties that were done by former DMV Administrator Ted Dolan, who recently retired. The new title results from the DMV moving from under the Department of Administration to the Department of Revenue.

Silva was director of the Rhode Island Municipal Police Training Academy and a former Cumberland police chief. In late January, Sasse announce that Silva had been chosen to head up the DMV.

-- projo.com staff writer Michael P. McKinney

Posted by Mike McKinney  at 6:11 PM | Permalink

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