(The Center Square) – Spokane officials are losing sleep over the city’s relationship with a regional emergency dispatch center, as member fees doubled what was anticipated this year amid a $50 million deficit.

Spokane Regional Emergency Communications, or SREC, started operating in 2018 and began providing services to Washington’s second-largest municipality in 2022. The partnership took several years to reach, spanning multiple administrations, but now it might crumble.