Medical Lake receives fire dispatch refund

MEDICAL LAKE — City coffers were expanded a bit by an unexpected financial surprise recently.

At the Feb. 2 City Council meeting, Spokane County District 3 Fire Chief Cody Rohrbach told members that with the coming online of the new Spokane Regional Emergency Communications system last year, replacing the older Combined Communications Center, funds some agencies had paid into a reserve fund supporting the older system were no longer needed.

“Some of those funds were redistributed back to the folks who paid in, I’m sure that was a pleasant surprise for Medical Lake, so glad to see that,” Rohrba...