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The EDP is an active member of the Economic Vitality Partnership (EVP). The EVP is a consortium of fourteen economic development, government and social service organizations. working together to keep Benton County a vibrant place to live, work and play.

As part of that charge, the EVP has a goal of creating a unified strategic plan to act as an umbrella for economic development services in Benton County, creating greater collaboration and eliminating redundancy wherever possible. Using the Vision 2020, as a starting place, the EVP is working to devise a plan to attain the attributes provided on the Economic Vitality page. To see the Vision 2020 Statement, click the link:

The EDP is acting as fiscal agent and project manager for the Economic Vitality Partnership in an effort to create a communitywide strategic plan focused on the economy. The successful proposer will create an umbrella strategy to align all organizations involved with economic development efforts in Benton County Oregon.

To see the Corvallis Vision 2020 Statement, please click on the link:

http://www.ci.corvallis.or.us/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=234&Itemid=188

Proposals will be accepted until 2:00 pm on November 1, 2005.

For a copy of the RFP and supporting materials, please call the EDP office at 5412.757.1507 or email mrusk@corvallisedp.com.

Nanotech site grows

ONAMI center taking shape on HP campus

By BENNETT HALL
Gazette-Times business editor

Nine months after a splashy grand opening that drew 250 enthusiastic supporters, the Corvallis headquarters of the Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute remains more promise than reality.

Construction workers still outnumber researchers at the facility, housed in donated space in Building 11 of Hewlett-Packard's local campus, as the painstaking process of installing air ducts, reconfiguring water mains and upgrading the power supply grinds on.

An array of sophisticated manufacturing equipment stands idle at the far end of the unfinished fabrication area, awaiting the day when it can fulfill its purpose: to create the prototypes for a whole new generation of powerful devices operating on the smallest scale imaginable.

From the New York Times

Hewlett-Packard's Chief Forced Out, Ending Rocky Tenure
By GARY RIVLIN and MARK GLASSMAN

Published: February 9, 2005

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Feb. 9 - Carleton S. Fiorina, perhaps the most powerful woman in corporate America, resigned as the chief executive of the giant computer and printer maker Hewlett-Packard, the company announced today.

The company's board called for Ms. Fiorina's resignation on Tuesday after she and directors disagreed on how to carry out Hewlett's corporate strategy.

The resignation brings to a close a rocky tenure for Ms. Fiorina, who oversaw Hewlett's controversial acquisition of the Compaq Computer in 2002. Her charisma and aggressive, top-down leadership style made her a highly visible personality in the consumer electronics industry and the target of some criticism during her five-year stint with the company. Moreover, the Compaq deal failed to bring Hewlett the profits that Ms. Fiorina had forecast.

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