Angeles City mayor supports Mexico cityhood
Mexico Mayor Teddy Tumang, together with Vice Mayor Rodencio Gonzales and members of the Mexico Sangguniang Bayan, paid a courtesy visit to Angeles City Mayor Carmelo ‘Pogi’ Lazatin Jr. on July 20, 2022 at the Angeles City Hall.
Mayor Lazatin expressed his support for the conversion of the municipality of Mexico into a component city.
Pampanga 3rd District Rep. Aurelio Gonzales Jr. filed House Bill 1683 on the premise that Mexico, Pampanga, classified as a first-class municipality, has met all the requirements, and none of any disqualifications, as provided for in Republic Act 7160, or the Local Government Code of 1991, as amended, to become a component city.
Under Section 450, a municipality or a cluster of barangays may be converted into a component city if it has a locally generated average annual income, as certified by the Department of Finance, of at least P100 million for the last two consecutive years based on 2000 constant prices, and if it has either of the following requisites: 1) a contiguous territory of at least 100 square kilometers, as certified by the Land Management Bureau; or 2) a population of not less than 150,000 inhabitants, as certified by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA).
A landlocked municipality in the coastal province of Pampanga, Mexico is composed of 43 barangays with a land area of 117.41 square kilometers or 45.33 square miles which constitutes 5.87 percent of the province’s total land area. It has a locally generated annual income of P105,518,000.00 for Fiscal Year 2018 and P193,427,992.00 for Fiscal Year 2021 based on the certificate issued by the Bureau of Local Government Finance of the Department of Finance.
Mayor Lazatin handed over a One Town, One Product (OTOP) souvenir to Tumang, Gonzales and members of the Sangguniang Bayan.
Also in photos are Executive Assistant V Raffy Angeles, City Councilor Dan Lacson and City Legal Officer Atty. Ralph Macalino. (Angeles City Information Office)
