Wastewater treatment plant update: Hey, Spokane Valley, we need your money too!

This is sort of funny but par for the course. As Spokane County proceeds with a proposed $145 million wastewater treatment plant , commissioners had an idea for funding problems: The City of Spokane Valley, whose residents would actually represent three-fourths of the facility’s customers , could help pay. City Manager Dave Mercier said the suggestion caught Valley officials “like a deer in the headlights.” Poor Spokane Valley. First county commissioners voted to stop snow removal in Spokane Valley after this winter, another big shocker. That was two days ago. Now, they’re unexpectedly thrown into the ring of a messy proposal for a wastewater treatment facility that doesn’t even have discharge permits. And expected to foot part of the bill? Better late than never, right? Why nobody brought this up earlier is an addition to the latest episode of the predicament that is becoming the wastewater treatment plant. More .