Mayor Marty Handlon of Alabaster, Alabama

4/15/2018

Mayor Marty Handlon

c/o Office of the Mayor

City of Alabaster

1953 Municipal Way

Alabaster, AL   35007

Dear Mayor Handlon,

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 to make Civil Rights stronger to reduce discrimination, protect the environment form pollution, and many others. Mayor Handlon, the main reason I’m writing you a letter is to explain how I find your work as Mayor of Alabaster, Alabama to be very inspiring to me.

In your current role as Mayor of Alabaster, 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 women including minorities businesses to help them compete in the economy, and expressing the need to make Civil Rights stronger to protect minorities including people who are different from being discriminated.   On the economy, I like on how you support expanding job-training programs to help train youth including workers to develop work-skills to help prepare for the workforce and provide tax-credits for small businesses including local businesses to help them hire people to work for them.  Funding special education to help students with disabilities get the educational resources they need to help accommodate them, expanding after school programs for youth to get help on their assignments from tutors, and implement programs to help train teachers along with school staff to improve on their skills to help students learn is common sense to improve education.   To protect the environment, I liked on how you pushed for more community volunteering programs to help engage citizens to help clean parks including the city to reduce littering,  supported more renewable energy resources to help reduce addiction to oil with gas,  working with city council to improve city services to help  clean parks including water resources to make them safe for people to use.  Another thing that I like about your role as Mayor of Alabaster, Alabama is how you are working to improve public safety by hiring more police officers to help patrol the city including neighborhoods to reduce crime,  pushing for educational awareness programs to help teach people about the need to reduce gun violence including bullying, and many others.

Mayor Handlon, 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. Your role as Mayor of Alabaster, 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 many others.

I strongly believe that you made a great difference in your current role as Mayor of Alabaster, Alabama.   You have inspired me to work hard on my disability and to continue to learn different subjects like history.  I was wondering if you could please explain what Alabaster is like.  Thanks for taking the time to read my letter, working hard to improve the community, and inspiring me.   I wish you the best to continue to work hard to make a great difference for society.

Sincerely,

Matt Winick