In Governor C.L. “Butch” Otter’s state-of-the-state address, the governor focused a significant amount of his speech on improving Idaho’s education system. One of those areas of improvement was making the Eastern Idaho Technical College (EITC) a community college for the eastern Idaho area.

“So today I’d like to invite the people of eastern Idaho to advance their ongoing discussions about making Eastern Idaho Technical College a full-featured community college,” said Gov. Otter in his speech. “I encourage serious public consideration of the benefits and opportunities that a local community college can provide to that region of Idaho.”