RECENTLY, Pampanga 3rd District Congressman Aurelio "Dong" Gonzales has filed in Congress House Bill 1683 which seeks the conversion of the town of Mexico into a component city of the province. According to the legislator, the town, a first class municipality, is ripe to become a city having the qualifications needed to convert it to such.
Once the town has been converted into a city, it will be a proper and fitting legacy for Cong. Dong, being a native of said town, in his lowly barangay Anao. He has been instrumental in the development of the town.
Another star who has given so much for the town's growth is its mayor, third-termer Teddy Tumang, who by landslide, had his fresh mandate recently. He holds the key to the development of Mexico having attracted so many investors that helped raise the town's income.
Speaking of income, the town has enough revenue to pass one of the requirements for cityhood. It has enough land area to become a city and has enough people to live. These three requisites are necessary to convert a town into a city.
From a lowly laidback town, the birth of a city has taken its initial step towards being developed further. Qualified enough, its cityhood would add to three the component cities in the province as in Mabalacat and San Fernando who in a few years time would be converted too into a highly urbanized category.
These conversions are proof of development brought about by dynamic local officials and the support of their constituencies in bringing forth economic growth in the province of Pampanga.
I have heard that if the move for cityhood has become approved, the town would be called the City of Mexico. There's the touch of a city being an imported one as in Mexico City in a South American country, Mexico.
If the City of Mexico would be born, it would mean more and improved government services for Mexicanos, more than what they enjoy today from the leadership of incumbent officials.
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