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<DIV>Bill, one reason not to scrap our economic development efforts is that
being a bedroom community doesn't pay the bills. The expenses of extending
infrastructure and fire and police protection exceed the tax revenue brought in
by mere residential property, and retail is not significantly better. We
would be much better off if we could continue to bring in and grow
companies like AHA, Terra Graphics, Eco-Analysts, Alturas Analytics and Anatek
Labs, etc. Encouraging emerging businesses to develop from their infancy
here, and recruiting others that value our quality of life and do not depend on
extracting scarce natural resources, particularly water, for their business to
succeed, is a sensible endeavor. And it does wean us a bit from dependence
on the University, while transferring some of that brain-work to the taxpaying
side of the ledger. Bruce Livingston</DIV>
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<A title=london@moscow.com href="mailto:london@moscow.com">Bill London</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, September 19, 2006 11:42
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Vision2020] why is Moscow
growing?</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The report is available at:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><A
href="http://www.ci.moscow.id.us/SpecialTopics/MoscowGrowth.htm">http://www.ci.moscow.id.us/SpecialTopics/MoscowGrowth.htm</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>the core answer, according to my reading, is the
2,000 WSU and Schweitzer employees that live in Latah County.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Which makes me wonder why Moscow is spending so
much chasing the gods of Economic Development.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I can hear the moaning now from the LEDC etc who
spend piles of taxpayer money chasing Growth.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>What would happen if we just declared victory in
the economic development wars and scrapped all our economic development
effort?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>BL</FONT></DIV>
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