(The Center Square) – Despite a Jan. 1 deadline, the Spokane City Council canceled a presentation set for Monday that regional dispatch officials had planned to give ahead of their scheduled departure.
Spokane Regional Emergency Communications told Mayor Lisa Brown and the council months ago that their relationship would come to a close next year. The dispatch network serving nearly all of Spokane County says it should have come as no surprise, given their tumultuous bond over the last several years.
SREC asked Spokane to commit to the regional model for years before the executive leadership voted in June to remove the Spokane Fire Department from the system in January. The city already operates a dispatch center for the Spokane Police Department, but it needs to scale that up as soon as possible…