City officials will explore a potential lease with the Port of Port Angeles for a joint emergency operations center and 9-1-1 dispatch center near William R. Fairchild Memorial Airport. The Port Angeles City Council voted 5-0 Tuesday to authorize City Manager Nathan West to “begin the process of exploring a lease agreement” for the port’s 1010 Building as a home for a new Clallam County EOC to be co-located with Peninsula Communications, or PenCom. The council — with Cherie Kidd and Michael Merideth excused — also directed West to bring back financial plans for the 1010 Building and two city-owned properties where an EOC, dispatch center and possibly a fire station could be built in west Port Angeles.