HomeMy WebLinkAbout04-07-2021_ Open Session_Item 36_Guzman, Alejandra_Warehouse Moratorium_links sanitizedFrom:Alejandra Guzman
To:Public Comments
Subject:Warehouse Moratorium
Date:Wednesday, April 7, 2021 3:13:58 PM
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Dear San Bernardino City Council,
San Bernardino is becoming a warehouse-filled area, with almost all of the jobs
available in our neighborhood are manual labor jobs earning a minimum wage. These
jobs are being filled by the youth pushed out of our underperforming high schools
unprepared to attend universities or seek careers. Even if they wanted to seek
careers there aren't any to choose from in San Bernardino, thanks to people selling
their communities to Amazon.
I am one of the many fortunate people, I was able to attend college, graduate with a
bachelor's and come back home. I have been living in San Bernardino, California my
whole life and since graduating, I realized there are zero opportunities here besides
working at an Amazon warehouse for minimum wage. My friends in this area that also
went to college are working at warehouses because that is the only opportunity
available here.
San Bernardino is filled with talented and competent people ready to work but our
politicians have sold their souls to fill their mouths with corporation money, not
considering the people, not considering the talent we have here.
These warehouse jobs are only temporary until it becomes automated like the auto
industry, then what will the people of San Bernardino have? No opportunities, no
transferable skills, no education? Do better for the people, for our community, and for
the future of San Bernardino.
STOP BUILDING WAREHOUSES, bring better jobs for our people and our
community! If you are saying but other jobs don't want to move here then fine you
wait until better opportunities, you lobby for better opportunities. We are better off
without further pollution and destruction of our city from another warehouse. Keep our
residential areas residential.
Cordially,
Alejandra Guzman