Small business due a break

We read with interest your editorial “Council leaves voters to envision viable future” (July 15) on the proposed Community Bill of Rights. We look forward to the upcoming dialogue as we move toward its passage on the November ballot.

As small business owners who work hard to provide our employees with meaningful, livable-wage jobs and health care, we breathe a sigh of relief as we finally see community members addressing small business owners’ needs. We are excited about the prospect of convening area health care providers and creating a local, affordable preventive health care program. We believe that our small business is as important to our local economy as the big-box stores and that small, locally owned businesses should be the cornerstone of our economy. Critical to this is giving our local businesses a fighting chance against the big boys.

We believe the Community Bill of Rights heads us in this direction.

Small and local businesses provide most of the private-sector jobs in this city – the Community Bill of Rights strongly supports small and local business and will work to create an environment that will nurture a diverse local economy.

Denise Attwood and Ric Conner

Spokane