<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><table><tbody><tr><td><a href="http://vision2020.moscow.com/" style="text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000"><img src="http://vision2020.moscow.com/images/vision2020.gif" border="0" alt="moscow.com presents: " width="449" height="103"></font></a></td></tr></tbody></table><hr><center style="text-align: start;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow Vision 2020 is a unmoderated email list. There is no manager to delete, control, erase, change, or purge the messages sent to this community discussion forum or its archives. Think of Vision 2020 as the soapbox in Hyde Park. This list is only the vehicle that facilitates this public discourse, and no person or hosting ISP is responsible for the content.</span></center><hr><table align="CENTER" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><table border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" width="400"><h3><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Vision 2020 Mission Statement Adopted March 1995</span></font></h3><ol><li><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">To ensure that all parts of our community have an opportunity to take part in visualizing and planning for the community's future. <br><br></span></li><li><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">To strengthen citizens' sense of community by promoting awareness, ownership and investment in Moscow's future. <br><br></span></li><li><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">To foster cooperation among (and public involvement with) the agencies and organizations that plan for and make decisions about the future of Moscow and Latah County. <br><br></span></li><li><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">To raise awareness on the part of citizens and public officials that: <br><br></span><ol><li><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">uncontrolled and unplanned growth may have negative effects. <br><br></span></li><li><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">short-term decisions have long-term consequences.</span></li></ol><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></li><li><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">To inform ourselves about growth and development issues. <br><br></span></li><li><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">To have fun thinking critically and creatively.</span></li></ol></td></tr></tbody></table></td><td valign="top"><table border="0"><tbody><tr><td width="400"><table><tbody><tr><td valign="top" width="400"><h3><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">OUR ACTIVITIES INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO:</span></font></h3><ol><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span><li><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Promoting community dialogue on planning and growth issues through such diverse channels of communication as a discussion list on the Internet. <br><br></span></li><li><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Increasing knowledge of community-based planning techniques through study groups, workshops and guest speakers. <br><br></span></li><li><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Providing technical expertise and volunteer assistance to community groups and local agencies interested in applying community-based planning, such as the Latah County Planning and Zoning Commissions and the Shared Facilities Task Force. <br><br></span></li><li><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Involving the community, especially young people, in planning through such activities as tours, contests, simulation games and exhibits. <br><br></span></li><li><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Recruiting volunteers to monitor and report on meetings of public agencies as a way of increasing public knowledge of the decision-making process.</span></li></ol></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" width="400"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Vision 2020 has no bylaws, budget or membership requirements. Its activities are coordinated by a three-member steering committee chosen annually by consensus.</span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><center style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: rgb(52, 74, 116); font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br></center><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">---------------------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> </div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"<span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">There's room at the top they are telling you still</span><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "> </span></div><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill </span><br style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"><br></span></font></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);">- John Lennon<br></span></font><div> </div></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div></body></html>