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Lewis County 911 Communications has received a $150,000 grant to upgrade its software and equipment that will help the dispatch center maintain and improve its services for the next five years. The grant comes from the TransAlta Centralia Coal Transition Grants Economic and Community Development Board and fully covers the cost of the project.
“If we would not have received that grant we would have had to bill our first responder units and our agencies,” said Scott Smitherman, administrator for Lewis County 911.
The project covers updates for Lewis County 911’s existing software and hardware both in the back room and at the consoles that the dispatchers use…
