St. Charles County Dispatch v. St. Charles County

In this consolidated matter, St. Charles County Dispatch and Alarm Agency, Inc. (hereinafter, “Agency”), a not-for-profit corporation which formerly contracted with St. Charles County to provide countywide fire and emergency medical dispatching services, together with several individual taxpayer appellants, appeal from adverse judgments in two related actions involving Agency’s challenge to St. Charles County Ordinance No. 96-146, enacted on December 30,1996 (hereinafter, “the Ordinance”).1 The Ordinance terminated the County’s contract with Agency, and provided that the County itself would…