VERMONT TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL, INC.

140 Kennedy Dnve
P.O. Box 2127
So. Burlington, VT 05407-2127

Telephone: 802-658-1100

Dear Vermonter,

November 1, 1994

Fax: 802-658-9419

The Vermont Technology Council is proud to present to you a Draft Copy of the Vermont Science and Technology Plan. It is the plan's intent to show a way to utilize Vermont's science and technology potential to keep our State's economy healthy and to provide us with needed high quality employment.

Please take the time to read this important document, and then give us your suggestions for changes, additions, or deletions. We are waiting to incorporate your comments into the final version of the report which is due to be delivered to Governor Howard Dean by November 30, 1994.

The plan was drafted by the Science and Technology Committee of the Vermont Technology Council. In a compact document such as the one before you, it is impossible to reflect all the thought processes or the rationales which lead to the proposed plan initiatives. To answer any questions which you might have in this respect, we have arranged for a series of public discussions on the Vermont Science and Technology Plan. We would like to invite you, your associates or business partners, or any interested individual to join us at one of these public discussions, and to engage us in a dialogue about our plan, and how we can improve it. The dates, times and places for the Public Heanngs on the Vermont Science and Technology Plan are shown in the attachment. Please take note that the hearing on November 22 will be broadcast to 12 sites around the State of Vermont through the facilities of Vermont Interactive Television. Also in the attachment you will find the television studio closest to you, so that you can interactively participate in the discussions at a location close to your home or place of business.

Science and Technology hold great promise for the economic development of the State of Vermont. We need your help to use this important asset in the most efficient manner possible.

I hope to see you at one of our public hearing sessions.

Sincerely yours,

Wolfgang K. Liebmann
Chairperson, Science and Technology Committee