Chapala Mayor-elect Javier Degollado is back in town after a ten-day trip to California where he met with native sons and daughters and their descendants who have put down roots north the border. The main purpose of the series of encounters held in the Los Angeles-San Francisco corridor was to trump up financial and moral support for the cornucopia of projects the incoming presidente municipal has up his sleeve for the next three years.
Meeting with local media August 20 for his first press conference since the election, Degollado explained that the California junket was a part of a bridge-building initiative to get all sectors of civic society involved in government decision-making and common efforts to better the community.
He also announced his intention to establish a special office to handle matters concerning migrant families living abroad and foreign residents here on the home front.