‘Entech Renewable Energy Solutions’
Seeks the Waste Handling Concession
 The company would invest 220 million Dollars in an energy-generating plant and would return 15% of the profits to the City Hall as well as another equal percentage from carbon bonds.
In the continuing process of finding the best offer for the final disposal of waste generated in the municipality, last Tuesday was again Entech Renewable Energy Solutions’ turn to present heir project to the temporary councilors commission and to the members of the Citizens Council in a meeting headed by city mayor Javier Bravo Carbajal.
The proposal’s fundamentals are based on thermal conversion technology under a process that contemplates the disintegration and consequent gasification of organic waste, thus generating electric power through the use of “syngas”, once waste has been previously separated.
It was stated that on the first year of operation 14 megas of energy would be generated, to be doubled on the second year and 42 megas would be obtained on the third year, since this alternative is aimed at turning a problem into benefits for the community.
 To launch the project a 220 million Dollars investment is required to build a plant over 4 Hectares that could be bought by said enterprise, even the lot where the existing dump is located could be used.
The cost to the municipality would be 20US plus tax per ton of waste received at the plant for treatment, however, in compensation for said expenditure, the City Hall would receive 15 percent from the energy generation income and a similar percentage from the carbon bonds the company would receive.
The concession is required for a period of thirty years, on the general project and capital the company will be associated with Econergy México; its operations with Rainbow Disposal CO Inc. and all stocks are backed by The AON Corporation and QBE Insurance Group.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Puerto Vallarta
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Countrywide Motorbike Tour Concludes in Vallarta
Guido Sánchez Soto, holder of the world motorbike riding record with over 384,000Km arrived to Puerto Vallarta, where he completed a trip covering the whole country’s 2,454 municipalities.
 Sánchez Soto is a native of Mexico City and has been dedicated to ‘moto-tourism’ for 16 years. At 38 years of age he holds a world record endorsed by the Confederación Internacional de Motociclistas Oficiales y Policías de Caminos (International Confederation of Official Motorbikers and Highway Policemen.
He became the first man to have visited the 31 states of the Mexican Republic on motorbike, certifying it over 249,3333.33Km, which drove him to tour the whole national territory in a period of four years, one month and three days; covering 2,418 of the country’s municipalities (March 13,1998), with the supervision of municipal authorities who attested to the kilometers in his motorbike’s odometer.
According to his report, he has toured over 384,000Km to date, equivalent to almost nine turns around the planet (44,000Km per turn), conquering and setting a second world record that is increased on a daily basis and having also visited all the country’s municipalities.
During his sojourn he has compiled information to promote the various destinations, as well as the touristic attractions offered by all those entities, be it archaeological, cultural or historic, as well as beaches offering relaxation, sun and fun; to place them into a splendid tourist guide that details what is offered by each one of the municipalities.
Guido thanked SECTUR (The Mexican Tourism Ministry) for their support facilitating his touring as well as the support he receives from each of the cities he visits.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Puerto Vallarta
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City Mayor Promotes Important Works for Puerto Vallarta
 With the purpose of obtaining more resources to undertake important urban infrastructure works for Puerto Vallarta, Javier Bravo Carbajal, presented a series of projects he seeks to include in the federal budget for 2009.
The city mayor informed of his meetings with federal congress representatives, who showed their good disposition as they have already strongly supported our municipality.
The proposal includes a batch of projects including the avenida Federación, avenida Los Poetas and the avenida Mangle; also changing the side lanes of the main avenue to concrete as well as avenida Prisciliano Sánchez, from its corner with Francisco Medina Ascencio to its arrival in El Pitillal, among others which he acknowledged will not be fully completed though they will still bring about some more benefits for Puerto Vallarta.
The city mayor also made it known that he visited the Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Transportes (SCT Communications and Transportation Ministry) to be informed on the development of the second tunnel at the bypass “Luis Donaldo Colosio”, that is awaiting the fulfillment of a series of requirements so the beginning of this project can be resolved. He indicated that even though this project will not be completed during the present year, what matters most is that the project was kept alive to be included in 2008’s budget, a solid base for its completion.
He also embarked on the subject of the shorter route Jala-Puerto Vallarta and the “macro-bypass”, explaining that this process has run into some obstacles as a portion of it across the Sierra de Vallejo, in the State of Nayarit, is still pending authorization.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Puerto Vallarta
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Puerto Vallarta Celebrated Big Mexico’s Independence
The celebrations of the anniversary of Mexico’s Independence started quite early, headed by Puerto Vallarta’s city mayor .
At 12 noon the National Anthem was sung to commemorate the 154th anniversary of its first interpretation. The festivities continued through the afternoon including the traditional burro-race, waiters’ race, sack-race, palo encebado (a contest consisting in climbing a slippery, waxed pole), competitions in which all participants and winner obtained prizes from the City Hall and sponsors.
A Mexican Night was staged at the open air theater, also known as “los Arcos del Malecón” displaying the talent of vallartenses at dancing and music.
To wrap-up the night, one of the great objects of pride of Puerto Vallarta, a performance by the ballet “Grupo Folclórico Municipal Xiutla“, displaying scenes representative of the states of Jalisco, Oaxaca, Veracruz, Campeche and San Luis Potosí, thus showing the great capabilities and talent that have carried them to perform on many different stages worldwide.
 At 11pm Sharp, the city mayor, accompanied by military chiefs, city syndic, councilors, their families and special guests, appeared at the Presidential Balcony to intone the traditional “Cry of Independence”, previous to the lecture of the act, enacted by José Emigdio Hurtado Rolón, City Hall’s secretary general.
Then at the cry of ¡Viva Aldama!, ¡Viva Allende!, ¡Viva Doña Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez!, ¡Viva Morelos!, ¡Viva Hidalgo!, ¡Viva Puerto Vallarta! And three times ¡Viva México!, followed by the ringing of the bell and singing the Mexican National Anthem, this ceremony took place peaked by the explosion of fireworks, more music and dancing at the Main Square and by the Malecon’s Seahorse “caballito del malecón”, while the special guests enjoyed their dinner inside the City Hall known to us as Palacio Municipal.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Puerto Vallarta
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Government Cruisers Tax Proposal backed by Coastal City Mayors
After meeting with the federal government’s treasury and touristic authorities, the city mayors that form the Asociación Nacional de Municipios Costeros (ANMCO, National
 Association of Coastal Municipalities) stated their acceptance of the new legislative proposal of President Calderón, to advance in the collection of a fee from those who enter the Mexican territory via our ports, this income would go directly to the treasuries of the coastal municipalities and the immigration authorities.
The proposal consists in abolishing the approved collection of $56 pesos to issue the tourists’ authorization to enter through Mexican ports, this fee is presently suspended due to the inability to operate said collection and replaced by a $25 pesos fee for immigration verification services of each person on board every touristic vessel arriving at each port.
It was clearly explained with figures how the decrease of the $52 fee by law, to $25, is compensated by the fact that the new fee will be collected at each port where the vessel calls, usually two, and it will apply to all persons on board, not only to tourists, which means the crew will also be paying for the immigration verification services.
The proposal maintains the scheme of providing resources to the municipal governments where said touristic-commercial vessels call, as well as to the Instituto Nacional de Migración (National Immigration Institute).
Source: Ayuntamiento de Puerto Vallarta
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Cruising Tourism, a great potential for Puerto Vallarta
“One of the most important fields of activity for Puerto Vallarta is the one dealing with the cruise ship industry”. For a destination having the visit of those vessels means more tourists, more economic resources, more employment, said city mayor Javier Bravo Carbajal, during his welcome address to the participants in the ‘II Seminario-Taller en Materia de Competitividad para la Industria de Cruceros en México’ (II Workshop-Seminar Mexican Competitiveness in the Cruise Ship Industry). This sector represents more tan numbers to a touristic city, it is a forthright opportunity to open further markets and to generate new business options.
 The Federal Government Tourism Minister favored to continue promoting and giving the highest relevance this industry requires to grant more competitiveness to the cruise ship segment in our country, where despite the good positioning of our beach-going tourism, a complementary offer is needed. This can be achieved through the different destinations’ culture, music or gastronomy, and a joint vision by the three levels of government.
For his part, the Jalisco State Minister of Tourism highlighted that in the case of Puerto Vallarta, this sector represents a segment of growing importance, receiving over 500,000 tourists a year, and bringing about an economic income of about 40 million dollars a year.
The enormous potential of growth of this field of activity was reflected from January to July 2008, when the flow of tourists by cruise ship increased 21% compared to last year. In addition to the natural beauty of this destination, an effort is being made in competitiveness with the purpose of making Puerto Vallarta stand out as a Destination with unique characteristics, geared at strengthening its identity, rescueing and giving further value to its attributes and traditions.
Towards that goal, resources were applied to the rescue of the historic center of Puerto Vallarta, achieving a joint investment of 36 million pesos among other actions being carried out for the improvement of touristic infrastructure and services.
In a press conference the city mayor informed about some projects being undertaken in Puerto Vallarta, as part of the development of the hotel industry in the city, the projects include three new facilities, an investment that Vallarta did not have over many years but it is being promoted as part of the equilibrium among touristic activities, as well as the advance of the Urban Development Plan for the City.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Puerto Vallarta
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