Guadalajara, Mexico.-Best at home. Following the general prevention made by the UdeG and the State Government of total protection for the next five days by covid-19, the Municipality of Tlaquepaque will suspend non-essential work until Tuesday 24 March. In plenary session, behind closed doors and lockers with head coverings and keeping distance, Mayor María Elena Limón announced the measure to prevent further spread of the infectious agent.
The Cabildo agreed that administrative employees should be able to carry out remote work during the contingency, postpone public events and interrupt all official deadlines and formalities, until further notice.
Only public services such as garbage collection, public safety, Civil Protection and The Green Cross will operate normally.
“It is very important that we all put aside the colors, we have to be united. It is a very strong issue, in other countries, in Italy and Spain, they have not been able to stop the contagion, we have to act quickly. We will not put at risk any person of this City Council () or so many citizens of Tlaquepaque, I think we all agree on that,” said the Municipal President.” It’s not a vacation, we must be home,” he added. The Munícipe also presented an initiative with a stimulus package in the face of economic impacts by the coronavirus pandemic, such as the forgiveness of tianguis permits, market licensing, loan grace periods granted and more loans with zero rate for micro-enterprises. It was also proposed to deliver a month in advance of social programs and a strategy of more support for small entrepreneurs and traders will be designed to complement the state government’s strategy, with a 10 million pesos exchange. Tlaquepaque joins Metropolitan Police
Six months later, the Government of The Villa Alfarera finally joined the Metropolitan Police.
Following differences with the state executive’s approach, the Plenary approved by a majority the signing of the agreement and the addendum of integration to the Decentralized Public Agency, which will coordinate all security agents in eight municipalities in the conurbada area. Limón reiterated that the Municipality maintains its autonomy and no human resources or movable and immovable property will be transferred to the corporation.
