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My husband and I moved to the Sandpoint area with the intention of protecting and conserving everything we fell in love with when we first visited Northern Idaho. It’s the perfect place for our retirement but also for others who have growing families.

We love being a part of the Sandpoint community — watching Bulldog football in the fall, hearing about Nordic skiing opportunities at local elementary schools in winter, and reading about the college choices of many seniors at Sandpoint High School in the spring. Unfortunately, I think the levy proposed in the fall put a bad taste in the mouths of many voters.

As a retired resident, I am not a fan of raising taxes, however, the upcoming levy supports everything we fully enjoy, love, and want to keep within this community. The levy will help to keep after school academic and sports activities, will keep 165 full time jobs (which greatly impacts our entire community — even us retired folks), and will keep paying for curriculum and instruction materials. I hope other retirees will consider the future of the young ones still in school.

I think it’s extremely reasonable to add $10 a year (with my home assessment at $350,000) to keep these basic, yet monumental, necessities. My husband and I fully support this supplemental levy and hope to continue to enjoy everything we love within Sandpoint.

DAN and JONNA PLANTE

Sagle