Alturas

["Devin Cole" <dcole@pacsim.com>]

As an employee of a successful technology company, Pacific Simulation (a
business unit within Invensys), in the Alturas development, I take issue
with the comparison to Enron.  While I cannot speak for the other tenants of
Alturas, I believe that the group of people I work with to be ethical and
honest.  To equate us with Enron is counter productive and offensive.  I
would assert that Pacific Simulation is a successful business,
representative of what is possible in Moscow in general and within the
Alturas Research Park specifically.

Also, I believe that we are fulfilling the vision for the park with our
success, including more than doubling the headcount of our group since April
2000.  I cannot speak for all employees, but Pacific Simulation provides the
"high paying" element that apparently goes along with "high-tech".  I
believe these to be at least a portion of the return sought for the support
given by the Moscow taxpayers.

In addition to PacSim, there are Anatek Labs and Seimens currently occupying
another building in the park.  My understanding is that there are two
tenants slated for the new building that currently reside in the Incubator
and qualify as "high-tech".  This brings the total of "high-tech" businesses
to five once the new building is complete and the tenants move in.  This
seems to fulfill the vision for the development, as well as potentially
provide "payback" to the Moscow taxpayers.

Here is where we have to invoke a "reasonable people" concept.  This is
something that one of my managers brings up quite often when we are
discussing contracts with other companies and such.  The idea is that if we
are dealing with "reasonable people", we will be able to resolve any issue
that may arise in our business dealings, and I have to mention here, we
typically find that we are dealing with such folks.

Using that idea, "reasonable people" can see the need that high-tech folks
may have use for an accountant, a lawyer, a stock broker, and most
definitely, a coffee shop.  These businesses support the high-tech
businesses.  Also, "reasonable people" may see putting in the Plaza as the
next step in furthering the vision of the development, and that filling the
available space with businesses (high tech or not), moves toward providing
the payback to Moscow taxpayers.

I have two questions:
1.  Are "professional" jobs not high paying?
2.  Would you fill your stock portfolio with only high-tech stock?

I would assert that "reasonable people" will take the park for what it has
become and make the best of it.  Let's not limit the potential for the
development to provide jobs, and return to Moscow taxpayers, by "tightening
the rules".  My vision for Alturas is a home for thriving businesses, and
while the "portfolio" may be heavily weighted toward high-tech, it should
not be entirely limited to the same.  As a Moscow taxpayer, I feel I have
reaped my return and more, and I do my best to return that to the community
that my family and I love and call home.

Sincerely,

Devin Cole
AQC Project Manager
Invensys Process Solutions
Pacific Simulation
1187 Alturas Dr.
Moscow, ID 83843
email: dcole@pacsim.com
phone: (208) 882-0322
eFax:  (208) 460-4275
web:  www.pacsim.com