Jalisco immigration chief Ricardo Vera Lira this week named a new head officer for Chapala INM services in the first major staff shake-up since the permanent lakeside branch office opened its doors in April 2011.

Gloria Judith Maldonado Rojas, glamorous Jalisco delegate for the federal Ministry of Social Development (Sedesol), was greeted by a full house of women and children when she arrived at Chapala’s DIF family service center on Wednesday, August 28.

Ramon del Arco Haro has been bumped up from his position as acting commander of the Chapala police department to become the formally titled director of public security.

Chapala’s Simapa water and sewage service agency is under new management with the designation of Timoteo Aldana Perez as general director.

The hand-out of free school supply kits to students enrolled in Chapala area public schools hit a snag last week when the state government failed to deliver its full share of materials. 

Lakeside community leaders who were invited to attend a luncheon with Governor Aristoteles Sandoval during his August 8 visit took advantage of the occasion to do more than casual glad-handing with the state’s chief executive. They turned it into an opportunity to bend the ear of members of Sandoval’s cabinet, soliciting top-level attention to a variety of pressing local issues.