5/29/2018
Mayor Randall Woodfin
c/o Office of the Mayor
Birmingham City Hall
710 20th Street North
Birmingham, AL 35203-2216
Dear Mayor Woodfin,
My name is Matt Winick from Ann Arbor,
Michigan with a strong interest in learning history and social justice. In
these subjects, I like to learn the need for Civil Rights to be stronger to
reduce discrimination, protect the environment from pollution, and many others. Mayor Woodfin, the main I’m writing you is to
explain how I find your work as 30th Mayor of Birmingham, Alabama to
be very inspiring to me.
In your current role as 30th
Mayor of Birmingham, Alabama I’m very proud on how you are a strong supporter
of Civil Rights by advocating for people with disabilities’ rights, supporting
funds for minorities including women businesses to help them compete in the
economy, pushing to expand laws to combat against hate-crime to help protect
minorities including people who are different, and expressing the need for
equal pay for women. On the economy, I like on how you expand on
job-training programs to help train youth including workers to develop
work-skills, push for tax credit for small businesses including local
businesses to help them hire people to work for them, and express the need to
raise the minimum wage to help minimum wage workers afford to live. Your
approach on improving education like funding special education to help students
with disabilities get educational resources they need to learn, expanding after
school programs to provide youth with help on their assignments from tutors,
increase literacy programs to help students who are illiterate improve on their
comprehension, and implement more diversity including arts programs to help
make education diverse is common
sense. On the environment, I like on how you support funds for renewable
energy projects to help reduce addiction to oil with gas, encourage businesses
including residents of Birmingham to use energy-efficent products to help
protect the environment while reduce high energy cost, and work to improve city services to help
clean parks including water resources to make them safe for people to use. On social justice, I especially like on how you are an advocate
for the need for immigration reform to help protect immigrants including
refugees from being oppressed, support
the idea of affordable housing to help people who are low-income or can’t
afford to live get shelter, and work on
creating programs to help train people who are homeless develop skills to help
prepare for the workforce. Another thing
that I like about your work as Mayor of
Birmingham, Alabama is how you push for funds to help restore historical
sites with museums including attractions to help improve tourism while make
learning a better place, implement
community policing for police officers to be more engage in the community in
order to improve relations between law enforcement with communities, and push for more volunteering programs to
help citizens get engage with the
community.
Mayor Wooflin, I have autism with a
learning disability. Having a disability is hard for me because I have trouble
comprehending on learning different advance 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 your work as current Mayor of Birmingham,
Alabama gives me motivation to continue to learn history and social justice. My future goal is to someday work in these
areas to help emphasize the need to make Civil Rights stronger to reduce
discrimination, protect the environment from pollution, and improve social
justice to make communities safe.
I strongly believe that you are making
a great difference in your current role. I’m very proud on how you worked hard to push
for Civil Rights, improve social
justice, and many others. You have inspired me to work hard on my disability,
be interested in learning about your work, and be motivated to continue to
learn history with social justice. Thanks for taking the time to read my
letter, working hard to push for common sense ideas, and inspiring me. I hope someday I can visit Birmingham, Alabama
and get a chance to meet you because you truly inspire me. I wish you the best
to continue to make a great difference with common sense ideas.
Sincerely,
Matt Winick
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