Good morning Jeff, It is a pleasure to virtually meet you in your new role as the acting CEO for the County. New proposed legislation related to tax breaks for data centers has led to conversations at a Commissioners’ meeting and an article in the Spokesman-Review about data centers potentially siting in Spokane County. Avista believes that any large load data center should be developed in partnership with communities, and only when the costs of integrating these large loads into our system provide benefits to our existing customers. I wanted to reach out and see if you would see value in setting up a meeting with Avista’s subject matter experts to brief you, Scott, and Kyle about Avista’s new large load process and answer any questions you may have? I want to ensure that we are being good partners to the County and it is important to me that your team has all of the facts in a timely fashion as we are currently setting up similar briefings with the Commissioners. If this works for you please provide a few dates and times that might work for your team and we will be happy to come to you. Thank you! Michele McCollum Regional Business Manager 12 N SHERIDAN ST | MSC-R71 | SPOKANE, WA 99202 PHONE 509-495-8563 | CELL 520-508-9161 www.myavista.com CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: The contents of this email message and any attachments are intended solely for the addressee(s) and may contain confidential and/or privileged information and may be legally protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient of this message or an agent of the intended recipient, or if this message has been addressed to you in error, please immediately alert the sender by reply email and then delete this message and any attachments.