Mayor Sly James of Kansas City, Missouri

6/19/2017

Mayor Sly James

c/o  Office of the Mayor

City Hall

414 E. 12^th Street

Kansas City, MO  64106-2795

Dear Mayor James,

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 for Civil Rights to be stronger to reduce discrimination, improve public safety,  protect the environment form pollution, and many others.  Mayor James, the main reason, I’m writing you a letter is to explain about my visit to Kansas City, Missouri and how I find your role as 54^th Mayor of Kansas City, Missouri to be very inspiring to me.

In your current role as 54^th Mayor of Kansas City, Missouri, I’m very proud on how you are a strong supporter of Civil Rights by advocating for people with disabilities’ rights, supporting fund to help women including minorities businesses compete in the economy, pushing for laws to combat against hate-crime to protect minorities, and expressing the need for women to have equal pay.  Pushing to fund renewable energy projects to reduce addiction to oil with gas, working with city services to help clean parks including water resources to make them safe for people to use, and implementing an initiative to encourage businesses to use energy-efficient products to reduce high energy cost is common sense to protect the environment. To improve city life, I like on how you work to push for construction KC Streetcar to help tourist including residents of Kansas City get transportation around downtown to help them get to work in order to reduce traffic congestion, launch Smart City Data platform to help residents of Kansas City to monitor available parking near the streetcar lines including assist them to monitor traffic to know if there are accidents or when roads are closed, and create diversity initiative to help hire women, minorities, and people with disabilities to be part of the city commissions to find ways to improve government services. Your approach on improving the economy like expand on job-training programs to help train youth including workers to develop job-skills to help them prepare them for the economy, provide tax-credit to small businesses including local businesses to help them be part of the community, and launch a campaign to help encourage businesses to hire youth, women, minorities, and people with disabilities to work for them is common sense.  On education, I like on how you are very committed to support funds to expand on arts including diversity with history programs to help teach people about the need for diversity including history, expand on special education programs to help students with disabilities’ get educational resources they need, and push for more youth programs with after school programs to help them get help on their assignments or get them involve in recreation programs.  Another thing that I like about your role as mayor is how you are working with law enforcement to find ways to reduce racial profiling to help protect minorities, pushing for a campaign to reduce gun violence, and  expanding funds to help restore historical sites including attractions around Kansas City to improve tourism while make learning a better place.

Mayor James, 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.  In September 2015, I visited Kansas City, Missouri and I enjoyed visiting the historical sites like the World War 1 Museum, The American Jazz Museum, and Negro Leagues Baseball Museum.  In these museums I really liked learning about how World War I started including some of the history of Americans who served in WWI, understand the history of how American Jazz including some musicians helped shaped American culture, and how African Americans made a great difference in baseball when they struggle with dealing with segregation.  Your role as current Mayor of Kansas City, Missouri drives me to continue  my strong interest in learning history with public policy.  My future goals are to continue to learn more history by visiting some sites including museums, understand the importance of making Civil Rights stronger, and many others.

I strongly believe that you are making a great difference in your current role as mayor. I’m very proud on how you are working hard to improve society.  You have inspired me to work hard on my disability, be interested in visiting Kansas City, Missouri, and to continue my strong interest in learning history with public policy.   Thanks for taking the time to read my letter, working hard to make great achievements, and inspiring me. I wish you well on continuing to make Kansas City, Missouri a great place.   

Sincerely,

Matt Winick

6/19/2017

Chief of Staff Joni Wickham

c/o  Office of the Mayor

City Hall

414 E. 12^th Street

Kansas City, MO  64106-2795

Dear Chief of Staff Wickham,

My name is Matt Winick from Ann Arbor, Michigan with a strong interest in learning history including public policy. Also I enjoy learning how different U.S. Mayors work hard to make a great difference for their community and how they inspire me to work hard on my disability.  I find Mayor Sly James’s work on advancing Civil Rights to reduce discrimination, protecting the environment from pollution,  preserving historical sites including attractions to make learning a better place, and many others. Also in September 2015, I enjoyed visiting Kansas City, Missouri where I got to visit World War I Museum, American Jazz Museum, and Negro Leagues Baseball Museum.  In these museum I had a great time learning history about how American Jazz played a role in society, how WWI started including America’s role in that war, and how African Americans work hard to overcome their struggles on being segregated in baseball.  Chief of Staff Wickham, 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.  Mayor James’s commitment to be a strong supporter of Civil Rights including people with disabilities’ rights really inspires me to work hard on my disability.  Mayor James role as current Mayor of Kansas City, Missouri motivates me to continue my interest in learning history with public policy.  I have a letter explaining how I find Mayor James’s work to be very inspiring to me with my experience in visiting Kansas City including a picture of me. My question is I was wondering if you could please deliver my letter to the mayor because Mayor James really inspires me to work hard on my disability and have a great experience in visiting Kansas City.

Thanks for taking the time to read my letter and delivering my letter to Mayor James.  I appreciate Mayor James’s commitment to improve Civil Rights and make society a better place.

Sincerely,

Matt Winick

Mayor James sent me a picture of himself with a nice message