[Vision2020] Council Far From Anti-Growth

[g. crabtree]

It looks like Mr. Hansen would have us believe that the answer to all of this communities problems is to expand Alturas. As is, the park is as much a home for lawyers and child care centers as it is a home to high tech companies. I seriously doubt that expanding it to the size of the proposed super center will result in any significant gains and to put my money where my mouth is, Tom, I'll bet you $100.00 that after five years the park will not have filled it's current expansion with "high tech" businesses much less be in need of additional space. wa da ya say? I'd love to lose this bet almost as much as I'd love to take your cash.

gc
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Tom Hansen 
  To: Moscow Vision 2020 
  Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 3:05 PM
  Subject: RE: [Vision2020] Council Far From Anti-Growth


  Arnold stated:

   

  "The majority of the Moscow's workforce consist of recent high school graduates with no experience. So obviously, the majority of jobs need to be jobs that students can preform."

   

  It seems that the only jobs expressed on this topic are those jobs that should be made available to students.  BULL!  Students are part-time residents.  They come.  Four or five years later, they leave.

   

  Do you know why they leave, Arnold?  Because they want more out of life than that minimum wage job that helped pay their way through college.  These students have graduated.  They have degrees.  They seek employment in a company that maintains a progressive pay chart with responsibilities to match.

   

  If Moscow were to expand the technology park, currently located adjacent to the old Tidyman's, to a size comparable to the size of a Wal-Mart Super Center, can you imagine the career-oriented jobs that would entail?  Students would also be able to intern at that technology park.

   

  Then, perhaps . . . just maybe the students will stay after they graduate, and work here in Moscow.  That, Matt, is growth.  Not the "hit-and-run" growth that Wal-Mart is famous for, but honest maturation of Moscow's economic well-bring.

   

  If tomorrow's leaders want to compete in tomorrow's market place, they must acquire the skills that make them marketable.  This means college, Arnold.  I realized this when I retired from the service with nothing more than a high school education.

   

  Then again, you can also make college a career.  Can't you, Arnold?

   

  Seeya round town, Moscow.

   

  Tom Hansen

  Moscow, Idaho

   

   

  "Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, a drink in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming 'WOO HOO. What a ride!'"



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