Mayor Marico Sayoc of Los Gatos, California

6/02/2017

Mayor Marico Sayoc

c/o Office of the Mayor

Town of Los Gatos

110 E. Main Street

Los Gatos, CA  95030

Dear Mayor Sayoc,

My name is Matt Winick from Ann Arbor, Michigan with a strong interest in learning history with public policy.  In these subjects, I like to learn the need to make Civil Rights stronger to reduce discrimination, protect the environment from pollution, and many others.  Mayor Sayoc, the main reason I’m writing you a letter is to explain on how I find your work as Mayor of Los Gatos, California to be very inspiring to me and how I enjoyed listen to your talk on Tedtalks.

In your current role as Mayor of Los Gatos, California, I’m very proud on how you are a strong supporter of Civil Rights to help protect women, minorities, and people with disabilities from being discriminated in education and public places.  Also on Civil Rights, I like on how you are an advocate for people with disabilities’ rights, support funding women including minorities businesses to help them compete in the economy, and express the need for women to have equal pay. Pushing for job training programs to help youth including workers to develop job-skills to help prepare them for the workforce, working with small businesses including local businesses to find ways to help the community, and encourage businesses including small businesses to hire women, minorities, and people with disabilities to work for them are great ways to improve the economy.  Your approach to protect the environment like supporting renewable energy projects to help reduce addiction to oil with gas, expanding on environmental educational awareness programs to help teach people about the need to protect the environment while understand the benefits of the environment, and pushing for funds to help clean up parks including water resources to make them safe for people to use. On education, I like on how support funds to improve special education to help students with disabilities get educational resources they need, push for need for more arts including diversity programs to help make education diverse for all students, and expand on after school programs to help students get help on their assignments.  Another thing that I like about your role as Mayor of Los Gatos, California is how you are working to create volunteering programs to help engage citizens to help clean the city, expressing the need to make social justice a better place, and teaming up with construction to help fix roads including trails in parks to make them safe for people.

Mayor Sayoc, I have autism with a learning disability. Having a disability is hard for me because I have trouble comprehending on learning different subjects, sometimes I struggle to communicate my thoughts, and get teased.  Your commitment to be a strong supporter of Civil Rights including people with disabilities’ rights really inspires me to work hard on my disability. Also I enjoyed watching “Why You Shouldn’t be the 40%-Marico Sayoc” Tedx Talks on You tube because I liked on how you explained on how local government play a role in society, the need for people to vote for different issues or candidates, and information about Los Gatos, California.  Also your role as current Mayor of Los Gatos, California motivates me to continue my interest in learning history including public policy.  My future goal is to someday work in public policy to help make local government a great role in society, improve Civil Rights, make social justice a better place, and many others.

I strongly believe that you are making a great difference in your current role. I’m proud on how you are working hard to improve Civil Rights, protect the environment, and many other issues.   You really did an excellent job on Tedx Talks explaining the importance of local government including the need for voting. You have inspired me to work hard on my disability, continue to have motivation to learn  history with public policy, and have a really strong interest in watching your speech on Tedx Talks.  Thanks for taking the time to read my letter, working hard to improve society including local government, and inspiring me.  I was wondering if you could please explain what Los Gatos, California is like and share some advice about local government. I wish you well to continue to make a great difference as mayor of Los Gatos, California.

Sincerely,

Matt Winick