Mark Spross, RPL, CPE and APCO International’s second vice president, passed away last weekend.
Silent Key: Mark Spross
APCO is incredibly saddened to report that Mark Spross, RPL, CPE and APCO International’s second vice president, passed away last weekend. Mark was executive director of METCOM 911, a consolidated emergency communications center (ECC) serving 94,000 people in 36 communities in Marion County, Oregon, as well as parts of Linn and Clackamas counties. Mark has been an APCO member since 2001 and served in numerous roles with APCO on the state and national level. He was vice president (2011), president (2012-2014) and immediate past president (2014-2016) of the Oregon combined chapter of APCO/NENA. Nationally, he served on task forces, the APCO Awards Committee, became an APCO group leader and was elected APCO’s second vice president in 2023.
I think the best part was just being around a huge group of folks in 9-1-1 that weren’t working. I have never had a chance to just sit and talk shop without being in my dispatch center.
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