The “will they or won’t they join” conversation between the city of Spokane and the board of Spokane Regional Emergency Communications, or SREC, abruptly ended last week, as the SREC board voted to tell the city to create its own 911 call center. During its normal monthly meeting on Jan. 16, the board of the regional 911 dispatch center voted to recommend to the Spokane County Board of County Commissioners that Spokane “separate from SREC,” and that the commissioners give the city permission to create its own primary public safety answering point by Jan. 1, 2026…