Tom Franzen, a veteran county finance, treasury and motor vehicle director and one of the county’s longest serving department heads, retired March 27 after 27 years of service. Franzen held several titles in county leadership since 1999, when he left six years of finance-related work in the private sector to become chief deputy treasurer for Johnson County. Yet he may be best known to the public as the face of the department that registers vehicles.
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