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Spokane Mayor Nadine Woodward says the idea of bringing Breean Beggs (right) to the negotiating table came from the police union.
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pokane Mayor Nadine Woodward remembers seeing the police officers’ faces in June when the Spokane City Council struck down their proposed contract with a unanimous 7-0 vote.
“The officers were watching that count happen as I was speaking to them,” Woodward says. “They were completely dejected, frustrated, upset. I got to see that personally.”
The union had gone over three years without a current contract or pay raises. And yet, much of the public had been waiting more than