Whitcom budget gets positive view

The Whitcom finance committee called a special meeting Monday to discuss the budget for this year.

Whitcom is the regional emergency dispatch center. Dispatch services cover seven counties in Washington and Idaho.

Lisa Strenge, Whitcom employee, said that she closed out the budget for 2019 and came out with approximately $200,000 in its reserves moving forward.

“We fared a little bit better than we originally anticipated,” Strenge said. “After going through the budget there were several line items in there that we did not touch what we had budgeted for.”

Strenge said moving into this year, fin...