Spokane, SREC board point fingers as fight over 911 dispatch funding heats up
Spokane Mayor Lisa Brown on Thursday justified a push by two political allies in Olympia to claw back tax dollars from the ...
City of Spokane leaders testify in support of bill shifting how funding is allocated for emergency dispatch
House Bill 1258 proposes that funding for emergency dispatch services across Spokane County should be based on call-volume ...
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Regional Spokane 911 center SREC tells the city of Spokane to go its own way
The “will they or won’t they join” conversation between the city of Spokane and the board of Spokane Regional Emergency ...
City of Spokane must plan new emergency dispatch system after SREC ends negotiations
SPOKANE, Wash. — The Spokane Regional Emergency Communication (SREC) board announced on Thursday that it is ending discussions with the City of Spokane about the city's emergency services joining the ...
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City of Spokane clashes with county over emergency communications bill
Tensions between the City of Spokane and Spokane Regional Emergency Communications (SREC) have led the city to plan a ...
Spokane County commissioners discuss options after failed partnership between city and SREC
The city must create a new emergency dispatch system after SREC ended negotiations, but SREC board members say a partnership ...
SREC board chair willing to renew discussions with Spokane over dispatch network
Spokane County signaled Tuesday that not all is lost after its dispatch network kicked the city of Spokane from its regional ...
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'Disagreeable and unwilling'; City, SREC end negotiations for regionalization
SREC also rejected our request to maintain the status quo for another year while we ascertain clarity around user fees and craft service-level agreements to ensure the needs of City of Spokane ...
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Spokane Fire Department issues statement on 'forced exit' from regional dispatch system
The Spokane Fire Department (SFD) released a statement regarding the news that it will no longer share a regional emergency communication system.
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Countywide fire and police leaders convene in outcry against bill to divert some county taxes to city
The bill, sponsored by Spokane Reps. Timm Ormsby and Natasha Hill, democrats, is the latest in a yearslong saga between the county 911 dispatch system , or SREC, and the city of Spokane.