Negotiations are underway for a regional dispatch center that would provide 9-1-1 services for the North Olympic Peninsula.
The Port Angeles City Council voted 7-0 on June 5 to authorize Chief of Police Brian Smith to negotiate with JeffCom 9-1-1 for a regional emergency dispatch center and report back to the council within 90 days.
Peninsula Communications, or PenCom, is a division of the Port Angeles Police Department that serves 17 police, fire and emergency services agencies in Clallam County.
Officials with PenCom and JeffCom 9-1-1 have been discussing regionalization for years, most earnestly in the past 18 months, said Karl Hatton, regional emergency communications director.