A state official announced Tuesday the delivery of panic buttons for 30 federal high schools in the state.
State Secretary of Public Safety Daniel De La Rosa signed an agreement with Juan Montejano, a local representative of Mexico’s Undersecretary of High School Education to install the equipment at federal schools.
The agreement includes training for teachers, administrators and students.
Federal high school principals from all over the municipality of Mexicali attended the meeting.
The panic buttons will be connected to the emergency center in order to attend incidents.
Lawmaker demands funds from state
A federal lawmaker said the Mexican government has been the only one to provide funds for Mexicali wheat producers can obtain better payments from their products.
Congresswoman Nancy Sánchez, an Institutional Revolutionary Party member from Mexicali, said the federal government made a commitment to deliver 150 million pesos or $8.8 million.
Those payments will be made during August and September, she said.
Sánchez said the federal government made arrangements to pay 3,930 pesos or $231 per ton of wheat, which is better than the payments made to producers from Sonora.
She asked her congressional colleague Exaltación González, a Mexicali member of the National Action Party, to demand additional funds from the office of the governor of Baja California.
“The state government should not keep its arms crossed under this issue and, on the contrary, must have a more proactive participation to solve the problem and not just put the responsibility on the federal government,” Sánchez said. “If this goes on, we will leave the problem to grow as occurs with other issues like teachers eligible for retirement who are still waiting for approval.”
Winning mayoral candidate celebrates
Mexicali’s victorious mayoral candidate held Tuesday night a celebration of his winning, even though his majority certificate has not been released and delivered.
National Action Party candidate Gustavo Sánchez, the virtual winner of the mayoral race, celebrated along with other candidates, party leaders and the state’s First Lady Brenda Ruacho.
The event was held at Mexicali’s Vicente Guerrero Park east of the Civic Center.
“Tonight, without a doubt, is a night of party, and a night to remember for the time, value, work, courage and enthusiasm of thousands of Mexicali residents who on June 5 decided to vote in San Felipe, the Valley and the city,” he said.
According to preliminary results, Sánchez won with the lowest amount of votes casted for a candidate from his party.
However, he showed his gratitude towards those over 85,000 voters who trusted him throughout their votes.
“Today is a day of happiness, but it is also true that today is a day to make commitments, is a day to endorse what we said during campaign, that we will work intensely for security, better streets, better services, better environment,” he said. “We are going to work tirelessly, because the commitment we made during campaign and the only way to endorse such a commitment is to lead the best local government the city has ever had.”
Due to issues raised during Tijuana’s mayoral vote tally, the State Electoral Institute has not scheduled the delivery of majority certificates to winning mayoral candidates.
