The Crossville City Council is considering a month-to-month funding agreement with the Central Communications Committee while it finalizes a new agreement with Cumberland County for emergency communications services. “We need to be prepared,” Councilman J.H. Graham III said during the council’s Tuesday work session. The city voted in December to withdraw from the current agreement at the end of June. Since then, City Attorney Will Ridley has been working with the county to negotiate a new agreement. That agreement is almost ready to be acted upon, but Ridley said the county’s approval process could take longer due to the committee process used by the county commission. Ridley said the new agreement would do away with the current partnership between the city, county and E-911 board. The city would provide $550,000 in funding for the dispatch center each year. “They [the dispatchers] are going to be employees of the E-911 board, which is set up by state statute,” Ridley explained. “With this agreement, we give them $550,000 a year, and they run the service.”