My origins aren’t in the Buffalo-Hanover-Montrose area, but my heart is.

I love this community and I love the Buffalo-Hanover-Montrose school district, and with your support I can continue to be a member of school board.

I joined the board in 2016, replacing someone who moved out of the district. It has been a wonderful experience. I spent eight years on the Orono City Council and have found my six years on the school board more rewarding.

As a city council member, you often make decisions about whether someone’s fence is too high or if they can build an out building.

As a school board member, everything, every decision, is about what is best for our children.

I have five children. Three already have graduated from Buffalo High School, and I now have a 13-year-old in the middle school and a 16-year-old at the high school. I wouldn’t want them in any other school district.

When I was younger, like many other idealistic young people, I wanted to do something to change the world. As I got older, I realized the importance of having an impact in your own little corner of the world.

That is the reason my wife and I did foster care for 16 years, the reason I spent eight years on the Orono City Council, the reason I have been on the Buffalo-Hanover-Montrose school board since 2016, the reason I joined the Buffalo Rodeo board of directors, the reason my wife and I started Enchanted Hollow Foundation, whose mission is to support and care for vulnerable horses as well as offer camp and riding scholarships to children and people of all ages with special needs.

I care about community. I care about kids.

I always have strived to make decisions that were right and best for children whether it is as a school board or community member.

I humbly ask that you consider supporting me and voting for me to continue on the Buffalo-Hanover-Montrose school board.

If you’d like to chat, e-mail me at bob.sansevere@gmail.com and we can set up a time to meet or talk by phone.