Governor announces housing loans for government officials

housing-finance-officialsThe agreement was formalized between IPROVIPE and INFONAVIT

In order to facilitate access to housing finance for public officials of Jalisco, the State Governor, Jorge Aristóteles Sandoval Díaz, formalized an agreement between the Real Estate and Housing Promoter of Public Interest of the State of Jalisco (IPROVIPE) and the National Housing Fund for Workers (INFONAVIT), whose owner, Alejandro Murat also signed the agreement.

The governor explained that an immediate goal of this agreement will be the allocation of a thousand housing credits for a thousand public servants of Jalisco, which include 500 officers of the security forces.

The governor also stressed that this agreement will trigger access to housing loans for workers of the 103 municipalities that currently do not have the option of accessing INFONAVIT schemes and the Pensions Institute of Jalisco (IPEJAL).

He stressed that in between the objectives of this agreement, there will be the priorities to promote marital credits "for husbands who work at City Hall and public and private organizations and who are listed on the pension scheme or in the INFONAVIT so that they can accumulate their loans and get more financing for their home".

Also, Sandoval Díaz mentioned that with these actions the proper utilization of 223 thousand square meters which are in the IPROVIPE territorial reserves is intended, especially in eight municipalities of Jalisco, like Tala, Lagos de Moreno, San Martin Hidalgo, Etzatlán, Ahualulco Market, La Barca, Tlajomulco de Zuniga and Guadalajara.

In his speech, the governor noted that there is a committed to advance the urban densification where there are already urban infrastructure services, such as Guadalajara and thereby rectify situations of abandonment of urban centers, as in the capital of Jalisco where there are questionable situations, such as school enrollment that is covered only by 25 percent in certain localities due to the existence of urban spaces without the desirable population.

For his part, the head of the Ministry of Agrarian, Territorial and Urban Development (SEDATU), Jorge Carlos Ramírez Marín, said that this year substantial progress was made in strengthening the federal housing policy, which promises continuity for 2014, once that six months in advance they have the operating rules for next year.

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They will seek to train more and be better prepared police officers

police-electoral-collegeThey will work in making the processes more transparent, so that with training and good performance the officers are able to access new jobs

One of the priorities in regards to the topic of public safety for the government headed by Ramón Guerrero Martinez, is to have a better prepared police force that is service-minded and honest, and that they have the opportunity to develop and aspire to new appointments, allowing them to provide a better quality of life to their families.

To that end, on Thursday the Municipal Commission of Police Careers was formally established with which not only there will be a compliance with the National Security System, but it also ensures transparency in income, stability, incentives, promotion and a worthy retirement for officers.

During the first working session, the president swore in the president of the commission, the Mayor Rogelio Hernández de la Mata, Commissioner of the Road and Preventive Police, while the electoral college is formed by the ruler of the Public Safety Committee, Otoniel Barragán Espinoza and the aldermen Javier Pelayo Méndez, Susana Mendoza Carreño, Doris Ponce Aguilar, Jesús Anaya Vizcaíno, and the road agent, Marco Josué; the preventive police Eduardo Santiago Mora Ramírez; the tourist police Silvia Janeth Delgado Barrera, and the representatives of the Centro Universitario de la Costa, UNIVA Vallarta, COPARMEX, CANIRAC, CTM and the CROM.

This electoral college shall make decisions to ensure the professionalism, training and upgrading of the police force staff, because to the extent that the officers have the dedication to service, they are prepared to perform their work and respond to the security challenges that are posed, it is essential that they can access better jobs to make Puerto Vallarta the safest tourist destination.

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Second teacher demonstration gathered only 500

another-teacher-protestThey claim that the "so-called education reform" is rather a labor reform that affects their interests

For the second time since the start of the teachers' resistance movement against the so-called education reform, a group of teachers from Puerto Vallarta protested marching from the facilities of the Integral Port Administration (API) to the Regional Education Service Delegation (Derse) but this time there were less participants and they didn't generate heavy traffic as on the previous occasion on September 25, although they did hamper the traffic flow on the Avenida Prisciliano Sánchez.

The teachers, mostly members of the Democratic Teachers Assembly in Jalisco, say that they are against the "so-called education reform" which to them is a "labor and administrative reform, but not a teaching one" because they believe that it promotes aspects of labor rather than educational ones.

On Wednesday October 2, about 500 teachers were concentrated in the vicinity of the API and walked to the Derse facilities across the residential development Fluvial Vallarta on Avenida Grandes Lagos.

THE NONCONFORMITIES
Protesting teachers, belonging to the National Coordinator of Education Workers (CNTE), listed a number of aspects of the Reform with which they are against: the first of them is that it does not mention the changes and improvements in the pedagogical aspects of educational planning.

They indicated that the reform promotes the administrative factor, "there is no talk about the saturation of groups that in the public sector are between 40 and 60 students, neither about making enough schools; a better salary is not considered for the teachers, for which they have to find a second teaching position, neither an improvement in the school equipment nor the proposed 8 percent spending in education".

Other groups of teachers from different schools joined the contingent which came from several avenues that lead to Grandes Lagos.

Thus, said the local teachers that are unhappy with the new education laws, they are joining the national movement of "peaceful civil disobedience" to which the magisterial leaders have convened. They assure that the new laws will hurt them because it affects their labor, their seniority, their stay in their jobs, their job security, among other things.

When they got to the Derse facilities, the teachers had a meeting in which they defended their arguments and asked the public to get informed and to join their dissent, with the intention that the federal government "reverses and abolishes the new education laws. "

It is noteworthy that the head of the Derse, Roberto Palomera Preciado, received a committee representing the protesting teachers at closed doors, without communicating the details of the meeting.

[readon1 url="http://vallartaopina.net/2013/10/03/segunda-manifestacion-de-maestros-reunio-solo-a-500"]Source: Vallarta Opina Translated by Rene Tripp[/readon1]

SCT is committed to maintaining oversight of the southern Jalisco works

scaThe disagreement of Antorcha Campesina for the abandonment of the works in southern Jalisco, was resolved with a tour of supervision between the head of the agency and the Social Organization leaders, instead of a march-protest that was to take effect in front of the facilities of the Jalisco Center of the Ministry of Communications and Transport.

During the inspection, Bernardo Gutierrez Navarro, director of the Jalisco Center of the SCT, Eduardo Campos Flores, state leader of Antorcha Campesina, Guadalupe Valle Chávez, leader in the Southern Region and Serafin García Hernández, liaison with federal antorchista deputies, toured seven road works, located in different geographical points in the southern part of the entity: Atequizayán, Alista, Tinajas, la Parota, La Parotilla, the Rosa bridge in San Antonio and a road that connects to various populations with Talpa de Allende.

The members of the tour, directly confirmed the state in which the works are kept, in which an investment of 114.5 million pesos is applied, obtained through the efforts of the Movimiento Antorchista of Jalisco and federal representatives from the same organization, which include roads, junctions and bridges, as main transformers for social development.

The tour begins
The starting point was Ciudad Guzmán, where on one hand the progress of an introductory section for the highway's north bypass was confirmed up to the Monument of Solidaridad, also involving the intersection Tecnológio and 4 Caminos. However, in the village of Atequizayán the decision was made to dispense with the services of the building company, due to the obvious delays that resulted in damages to the project.

The next stop was in San Gabriel, specifically in the town of Alista, where it was confirmed that the main street is 90 percent complete, it is a work that is a kilometer of pavement with hydraulic stamping. The representative of the agency and the antorchista leaders, stopped in front of the Technical High School, where they held a briefing with local residents for considering the need to place speed bumps. Then they continued with the work tour, reaching the community of La Tinaja, where 300 meters to enter the place is being built, with quality asphalt that is 5 inches thick. The amount exerted in this area is of 9 million pesos.

Later, they reached the town of Tolimán, where they visited La Parota, in which they placed a section that connects the towns of Santa Elena, La Parotilla and Zapotitlán de Vadillo. Here the construction staff of the Chavez building company was instructed to continue their construction work with formality. The first 4 kilometers of a total of 16 have already been achieved , the resources for this project totaling 12 million pesos.

Also in Tolimán, the opportunity was taken to go into the San Antonio disaster zone, where the meteorological phenomena "Manuel" and "Ingrid", caused serious damages to the bridge De la Rosa, San Antonio, where the link of 60 meters of length requires immediate attention, for which Bernardo Gutierrez announced that it would be included within the Natural Disaster Fund (Fonden). Close by there was a follow up to the junction 4 Caminos, where there is a significant percentage of completion, very soon to be one hundred per percent.

At the conclusion of the work tour, the Movimiento Antorchista of Jalisco, through its leader Eduardo Campos Flores thanked the official of the SCyT for his availability to personally service the disagreements and concerns with respect to the works, to which Gutierrez Navarro responded with a compromise "there is no need to be protesting outside the offices, because whenever it is necessary I will come to take care of your needs. I will be very attentive to the development of these important social projects", he concluded.

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Work at the CUC is reactivated

university-resumes-normalAdministrative staff, students and teachers participated in cleanup actions

Virtually everything returned to normal at the University Center of the Coast, after the flood that affected this university, with this rain storm and weather phenomena that has generated abundant rainfall, affecting different parts of the coastal zone of Jalisco .

Fortunately the flood damage is not as bad as years ago, where the Unit Safety and Civil Protection, reported 30% percent of the affected campus with puddles in classrooms, hallways and parking lot.

In this regard Dr. Marco Antonio Cortés Guardado, Rector of the CU Costa said that he will continue negotiating with various government authorities the financial support for expanding the water channels that overflow every time that heavy rains occur.

The academic and administrative work returned to normal on the Tuesday evening shift of September 25, where the contingency affected about 5,000 members of the university community.

In the cleanup that took place 24 hours after the contingency, there was the participation of about 50 students, general staff, and academic and administrative staff, who in almost three hours fixed the damage that the flood left behind in this university campus.

[readon1 url="http://vallartaopina.net/2013/09/25/reactivan-labores-en-el-cuc"]Source: Vallarta Opina Translated by Rene Tripp[/readon1]

Morena Will Collect Signatures Door to Door to Demand a Consultation on Energy Reform

morena thumbIt is a matter that should be discussed widely, says Ortiz Ignacio Pérez Vega. - Around 11,000 activists of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena) will knock on every house in 60 municipalities of Jalisco to collect signatures to require the federal government and Congress to make a national consultation on the energy reform.

The Morena state president, Humberto Ortiz, said that yesterday started the signature campaign to promote the national consultation. "We want the people to have an opinion, to say whether they believe that the proposal of Enrique Peña Nieto is valid, i.e. the modification of Articles 27 and 28 of the Constitution so that the domestic and foreign private companies share the profits of the oil industry", he explained.

At a press conference held at the Plaza de Armas, Humberto Ortiz said that it should be explained to the people of Jalisco and all the Mexicans in general, the scope of the constitutional changes that are proposed by Peña Nieto and his party, the PRI, which has the support of the PAN.
Ortiz said that the energy reform is an issue that should be discussed extensively and therefore he has sought the PRI state leader, Hugo Contreras, with the objective of accepting a debate on energy reform in Jalisco.

"We're giving the citizens elements in order to have a criteria of the PRI proposal and the project aims to encourage citizens who want the oil to continue as a national heritage", he said.

However, in radio stations and in various media where members of the PRI and Morena are convened, the PRI representatives are absent and shun the discussion of ideas, said the leader of Morena.

The signatures collected in Jalisco and across the country will be taken on October 6th to Mexico City, to a concentration presided by Andrés Manuel López Obrador. "Hopefully this government will have the sensitivity and talent to make that query to be binding", he said.

On the other hand, he reported that on Sunday October 27th, the State Assembly of the Constituency of Morena will be carried out, at 13 hours, at the Pan American Volleyball Stadium. • It is a matter that should be discussed widely, says Ortiz Ignacio Pérez Vega. - Around 11,000 activists of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena) will knock on every house in 60 municipalities of Jalisco to collect signatures to require the federal government and Congress to make a national consultation on the energy reform.

The Morena state president, Humberto Ortiz, said that yesterday started the signature campaign to promote the national consultation. "We want the people to have an opinion, to say whether they believe that the proposal of Enrique Peña Nieto is valid, i.e. the modification of Articles 27 and 28 of the Constitution so that the domestic and foreign private companies share the profits of the oil industry", he explained.

At a press conference held at the Plaza de Armas, Humberto Ortiz said that it should be explained to the people of Jalisco and all the Mexicans in general, the scope of the constitutional changes that are proposed by Peña Nieto and his party, the PRI, which has the support of the PAN.
Ortiz said that the energy reform is an issue that should be discussed extensively and therefore he has sought the PRI state leader, Hugo Contreras, with the objective of accepting a debate on energy reform in Jalisco.

"We're giving the citizens elements in order to have a criteria of the PRI proposal and the project aims to encourage citizens who want the oil to continue as a national heritage", he said.

However, in radio stations and in various media where members of the PRI and Morena are convened, the PRI representatives are absent and shun the discussion of ideas, said the leader of Morena.

The signatures collected in Jalisco and across the country will be taken on October 6th to Mexico City, to a concentration presided by Andrés Manuel López Obrador. "Hopefully this government will have the sensitivity and talent to make that query binding", he said.

On the other hand, he reported that on Sunday October 27th the State Assembly of the Constituency of Morena will be carried out, at 13 hours, in the Pan American Volleyball Stadium.

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We are not 'Attention-Seekers', We are Fighting: PV Teachers Against the Education Reform

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Teachers belonging to the North Coast Magisterial Movement led a march on Wednesday on Avenida Francisco Medina Ascencio, going up to the main square of Puerto Vallarta, to fix their stance against the recently passed Education Reform.

The contingent began with around 2 thousand people who were mainly teachers affiliated to the CNTE and SNTE and who also make up the mentioned movement, plus some parents and students, carrying banners and placards. As they advanced this number increased, according to participants to more than 3 thousand.

Originally it was convened at 8:30 am in the parking lot of the airport, but then they decided to start at 9:15 in Plaza Marina, to not give a bad impression to the tourists.

The participants walked almost four hours to reach the main square, where an assembly was held and their positions were clarified. Some teachers and parents took the floor and presented their arguments to participate in this movement that was convoked in all the municipalities of the state of Jalisco.

"We are in favor of an educational reform which contemplates 8 percent of the GDP for education and not 4 percent, we need more investment in education, we are in favor of an education reform which contemplates a maximum of 35 students per group, to be able to have a quality education near the children (...) sadly only 10 percent of the schools in Puerto Vallarta are half acceptable, sadly 90 percent have a deficiency of some sort, that is why we ask and we require from all levels of government that we fight in favor of education", explained professor Pablo Ruperto Gómez, of the high school Foránea Federal number 29.

While this was happening, a committee of 12 teachers requested an audience with the mayor of Puerto Vallarta, Ramón Guerrero Martínez, but he was not in the presidential compound and they were attended by the Councillor María Guadalupe Anaya, who heads the Education Committee within the city​ government.

Outside this group no other professor was allowed to enter into the City Hall building.
The purpose of this meeting was to ask the mayor to be the spokesman of rejection to the approval of the Education Reform of the State Government. They agreed to a meeting on Monday September 30th at 11 am, as announced by the spokesman of the committee, Lorena Jiménez Andrade, director of the school Niños Héroes de Ixtapa.

The professor stressed that there is a commitment on the part of teachers who left their classrooms this Wednesday, to make up the day depending on the dynamics of each institution, so that students are not affected by the lack of service.

Finally, the group disbanded and minutes after 1 pm the demonstration was over.

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CONAGUA Confirms Progress in the Rehabilitation of the North Center Collector

aguaPVMIn order to verify and monitor the progress of the rehabilitation of the north center collector, in its first and second stages, as well as the results of the environmental contingency that was presented last July after a portion of the central manifold collapsed, a few days ago the general director of the Lerma Santiago Pacific Basin, of the National Water Commission (CNA), José Elías Chedid Abraham came to this city.

César Abarca Gutiérrez, director of SEAPAL Vallarta, said the that the visit of the official of the CONAGUA consisted of an oversight tour through the manifold repairs of the Fluvial Vallarta zone and the Mexico-Mojoneras Avenue, in which the federal government has allocated an important part of its resources for improving this infrastructure.

He also said that he delivered a detailed report of the work done to address and resolve the problem of sewage runoff recorded last July in the colony Cinco de Diciembre, as a result of a collapse in the central manifold, which resulted in a environmental contingency in the beach Camarones, which has an official certification since more than five years ago.

Abarca Gutiérrez added that the timely attention to this contingency and the work done to repair the damage in the collector in order to prevent it from turning into a major problem, deserved the recognition of the federal official towards the water and sewer utility organism of the city.

He also emphasized that Chedid Abraham left satisfied with the efforts made by SEPAL Vallarta, with the support from the federal government through the CONAGUA, to give a comprehensive solution to the issue of the central manifold, and in general to the old and outdated drainage system of the city that causes these problems.

He noted that the director of the Agency of the Lerma Santiago Pacific Basin personally confirmed the advances in the rehabilitation of the north central manifold, in its first and second stage, and he had confidence that soon the work of the third stage will begin, to thereby solve an important part of the infrastructure and start planning what will be done in the following years to give a final solution to this issue.

[readon1 url="http://www.noticiaspv.com/constata-conagua-avances-en-la-rehabilitacion-del-colector-centro-norte/"]Source: NOTICIASPV.COM Translated by Rene Tripp[/readon1]

The DIF of the State Sends the First Humanitarian Aid Cargo to the people of Jalisco

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The president of the System for Integral Family Development (DIF) of Jalisco, Lorena Jassibe Arriaga de Sandoval, gave the starting signal to a shipment of humanitarian aid gathered at the collection centers of the rehabilitation center Casa Jalisco and its central offices, to support affected families in the wake of Tropical Storm "Manuel".

The support consists of 700 larders which include non-perishable and/or canned foods, in addition to cleaning and personal hygiene supplies.
Arriaga de Sandoval recognized the solidarity of the people of Jalisco: "Thank the people who have trusted us in the Collection Center. Tell them that today we will deliver in two municipalities, and the rest of the week we will also be delivering. We have 40 tons of food, today 700 larders are comming out."
This first shipment departed from the DIF Jalisco facilities in front of the Glorieta de La Normal, bound for the municipalities of Tuxpan and Tamazula de Gordiano, that suffered damages as a result of heavy rains.

"If there are volunteers who want to come with us to put together larders, we are waiting here at DIF Jalisco from 8:00 to 20:00, we will build larders this day and tomorrow", invited the president of the supporting organization.

For his part, the head of the Civil Protection System of the State DIF, Rafael Quintero Navarro, also emphasized the solidarity of the people of Jalisco and reiterated the request for support from volunteers to sort products, check expiration dates and package larders.

The official pointed out that, until further notice, the collection centers will continue to operate from 8:00 to 20:00 hours, Monday to Sunday. They are located in Avenida Alcalde No. 1220, in front of the Glorieta de La Normal, and at Casa Jalisco, in the Ontario Street entrance.

Non-perishable and/or canned food will be received, with an expiration date of no less than six months, especially beans, rice and oil, bottled water, baby food, personal hygiene products such as diapers for children and adults, as well as cleaning supplies.

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Road chaos in Vallarta due to a teacher demonstration

teacher-demonstrationMembers of the National Coordinator of Workers of the Education performed for the first time, a massive protest, here

For the first time since the teachers' movement of resistance against the so-called education reform started, dissenting teachers of Puerto Vallarta marched en masse, generating strong traffic chaos for nearly three hours.

Yesterday, more than 2 thousand 500 teachers marched to Plaza Marina Square in front of City Hall in the city center, on the Boulevard Francisco Medina Ascencio, causing traffic and inconvenience to merchants, drivers and some tourists who arrived in a cruise.

Dissenting teachers, belonging to the National Coordinator of Education Workers (CNTE), would gather in front of the OXXO of the airport but finally to "not affect tourism" they decided to assemble in front of Plaza Marina. To the detachment were added other groups of teachers from different schools along several avenues leading to the Medina Ascencio like the Politécnico, Fluvial Vallarta and the Bypass.

In this way, said the local teachers that are unhappy with the new education laws, they are adding to the national movement of "peaceful civil disobedience" to which the magisterial leaders have convoked. They say that the new laws harm them because it affects their labor, their age, their durability in their jobs, and their job security, among other things.

AGAINST SELF-MANAGEMENT
Some teachers said that it is not true that they are against the assessment as stated in some media, but against the fact that it is a punitive assessment tending to layoffs without recognizing their seniority, others mentioned that they require training in order to deal more effectively with the evaluations, as so far they only get "light courses", according to their statements.

The dissenting teachers noted that educational authorities should also be assessed, they said that first they should correct their own errors before attempting to evaluate the teachers; as an example they mentioned the errors found in the free textbooks of this school year.

Furthermore, with the aim of adding mothers and fathers to their cause, the teachers assured that with the Education Reform, parents will have to pay the expenses incurred on school grounds, by way of mandatory fees; they said that the parents will have to pay all school services and maintenance.

When they reached City Hall, the teachers had a brief rally in which they defended their arguments and asked the public to be informed and join their dissent, with the intention that the federal government "reverses and abolishes the new education laws".

[readon1 url="http://vallartaopina.net/2013/09/26/caos-vial-en-vallarta-por-la-manifestacion-de-maestros"]Source: Vallarta Opina Translated by Rene Tripp[/readon1]

The PAN in Jalisco rejects the VAT to mortgages and tuition

no-more-taxesThey urge their companions in the Congress
In the next session, PAN deputies submitted a point of agreement to thoroughly analyze the proposal of the federal executive

Members of the parliamentary group of the National Action Party (PAN) in conjunction with the president of the PAN of Jalisco, Miguel Monraz Ibarra, consider it important that the proposal by the federal government on Tax Reform, is subjected to a thorough review, as they consider that it is a reform that significantly affects the economy of the people.
Among the points raised as part of the proposal are: increase in the income tax, VAT on tuition, rent and purchase of houses.
The president of the Economic Development Committee in the Congress, deputy, Juan Jose Cuevas García, said that there has been no economic development in Jalisco nor in Mexico. He mentioned that there is an economic downturn in the country that is serious, and this reform that will be carried out will significantly affect the economy of each person in Jalisco and in Mexico.
He made a call for: "No more tax burdens on the captive taxpayer", he also said that it is not possible that both the president of Mexico and the secretaries are touring the country to ensure that the reform is passed, currently the work is up to the lawmakers to decide whether or not to approve it.
He expressed his refusal to collect taxes on mortgages because it hits hard on the people who have the least and and work the most. No to the removal of the fuel subsidy because fuel will soon become much more expensive. No to the deficit which may lead us to a debt. No to the collection of VAT on tuition, which is a throwback, EPN is wrong if he thinks that all who go to private schools are rich.
Likewise he made a call to the government of the state to be on the side of the people of Jalisco and not of its party, he stressed that it is important to make an analysis, review and approval of the proposal.
He said that it affects middle-class workers. Inflicting additional levies that are unjust and inefficient. It hurts the growth potential of the economy. And furthermore it seeks to obtain most of its resources through funding, indebting the people.
He recalled that during the PAN administrations the federal borrowing times prompted by the PRI were left behind and now we are back to those times with these types of reforms proposed by the federal government.
He also said that far from being a tax reform it is a miscellaneous tax. It would seem as if the PRI seeks to obtain resources for 2015 at the expense of Mexicans, stopping the generation of wealth and jobs.
In the case of the maquiladora industry, "now they intend to implement a VAT to the maquiladora sector, which presently accounts for two million three hundred thousand direct jobs in Mexico and nearly eight million jobs considering the direct and indirect jobs."

[readon1 url="http://vallartaopina.net/2013/09/19/panistas-en-jalisco-rechazan-iva-a-hipotecas-y-colegiaturas"]Source: Vallarta Opina Translated by Rene Tripp[/readon1]

Susana Mendoza Carreño Renders her Report on Working as a Councillor

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The Councillor for Movimiento Ciudadano, Susana Mendoza Carreño, provided a report of her work during her first year as a mayor, in which she questioned the municipal administration of Ramón Guerrero Martínez and recalled debts of the former mayor Salvador González Reséndiz.

"I pledge to promote transparency, accountability, efficiency in financial instruments, fight for real advice from consultants and experts, so that the Council to which I belong travels on the right path of legality. We offered to change history and in this we must strive: it is not possible that every three years, you fall into a "move away so that I can take over", a repetition of the same vices, the same practices that impoverish the municipality and, what is worse, that the hopes of thousands of Vallartans die in respect to being able to change history", she said in a closing his speech.

In the event the notable absentee was the mayor Ramón Guerrero Martínez, and the General Secretary Antonio Pinto Rodríguez. However there were their counterparts Óscar Ávalos, Candelaria Villanueva, Jesús Anaya, Miguel Ángel Yerena Ruiz, Humberto Gómez Arévalo, Otoniel Barragán and the trustee Roberto Ascencio, besides representatives of the chambers of commerce and the director of Seapal Vallarta, César Abarca.
Among the initiatives that the council meeting has presented are the development of a Risk Atlas of Puerto Vallarta, the installation of regulations for gas stations, distribution, transportation and storage of hydrocarbons in Puerto Vallarta, the wage equalization asked by the lighting staff; repayment of financial resources to people to which they have been promised since 2008 by commercial establishments and which paid to the municipal treasury 110 thousand pesos; fire extinguisher allocation for the four delegations, first aid kits, megaphones, flashlights and all the necessary equipment that is necessary to help and service the people for 100 thousand pesos.

Mendoza Carreño assured that she had put in her bag 82 thousand 700 pesos for the delivery of 650 groceries packets for poor people and had supported every month three children: one with a DIF grant, a Kids Club Chivas player and one more with medicines. Also through the provision of eyeglasses, supporting single mothers, supporting elderly people, payment of medicines, and transfers to the city of Guadalajara, Mexico City and abroad.
Civil Protection Commission

She convened 96 meetings, starting on October 2 with the accident of the secretary of the mayor in the Municipal Administrative Unit, so that reports on the conditions of the property could be developed.

"It did not have an habitability permit, the premises were not suitable to house City staff, let alone citizens who come daily to the various government agencies to perform administrative procedures".

Evacuation routes were evaluated and problems of the housing development of La Aurora: "where there is a proliferation of stands with gas tanks and electrical installations that do not have the necessary security measures, coupled with changes in the internal structures of the departments, excluding a specialist report, authorization of the Planning Management, Land Planning and Civil Protection . The changes have caused severe damage to the structures of some load-bearing walls of the buildings, jeopardizing the safety of the inhabitants. "

"A tour of the 27 colonies was made where homes are located in high-risk areas like in Cañadas and Bosques del Progreso, where 12 families were relocated to safer housing due to the rainstorm, the payment of four months' rent was managed, for the months of June to October 2013, in the amount of 100 thousand 800 pesos, which were delivered in its entirety and directly to the landlords upon the signature of a promissory letter, it should be mentioned that in the previous administration, the same management was performed, but the resources were not delivered completely to the affected citizens".
On next Thursday at 10 am, the councilor will render the report regarding the transient commission of the delivery and receipt.

[readon1 url="http://www.prensaglobal.com/notas/56283.html"]Source: Prensaglobal Translated by Rene Tripp[/readon1]

A billion pesos are planned for El Zapotillo Dam

dam-curtain

The draft budget 2014 of the federal government allocates more than 980.2 million pesos for the construction of the Dam El Zapotillo, while the National Water Commission (Conagua) evades interviews to confirm the progress of the project or if the curtain of the reservoir will be of 80 or 105 meters. In the height difference, the flood of the town Temacapulín is at stake.
Since 2008, the Federation has accumulated a budget allocation of five thousand 569 million pesos for the project, which represents almost half of the total cost.
Last August, judges of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation canceled the agreement signed in 2007 by the federal and state governments of Jalisco and Guanajuato. The executive authorities then modified the height of the curtain of the dam from 80 to 105 meters to expand the storage capacity and benefit León, Los Altos de Jalisco and the Metropolitan Area of Guadalajara but never took into account in the amendment the Congress of Jalisco.
The Attorney Carlos Enrigue Zuloaga was consulted on this issue: "It's not going to full court, it is simply referred to the governor (Aristóteles Sandoval) so that he can determine his will". This means that there are two possible scenarios: the agreement is signed again and the local Congress is considered to ratify the curtain at 105 meters, or the height is 80 meters and the flooding of Temacapulín is prevented.
Following the ruling of the Court, the governor of Jalisco reiterated his position that the height is 80 meters, but the Federation has the last word.
Representatives of all the parliamentary factions of the State Congress have already visited the zone in conflict and announced the creation of a special committee to address issues related to El Zapotillo. To date there is no news from the legislative body.

 

[readon1 url="http://vallartaopina.net/2013/09/19/proyectan-mil-millones-de-pesos-mas-para-la-presa-el-zapotillo"]Source: Vallarta Opina Translated by Rene Tripp[/readon1]