He said he has laid down the welcome carpet to big local and foreign businesses and industries to put itself at par with the more progressive urban areas of the province, like Tarlac City.
[5] Some residents expressed belief that the passage of a law renaming Concepcion after Ninoy would be smoother with his son Noynoy Aquino being the president at that time.
In October 2015, Lacson, together with Senator Bam Aquino and other Tarlac local officials, inaugurated the 101st Negosyo Center in Concepcion.
[8] On 2017, Lacson, along with the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Tarlac officials, led the distribution of Negokarts and starter kits to recipients, who were various ambulant vendors and woman cosmetology TESDA graduates.
The construction of the extension campus is considered a legacy project of Lacson where 75 million pesos from their local funds is budgeted and hopes to accommodate around 500 enrollees by 2021, its target year of operation.
However, he has also represented the country, in his capacity as Mayor, as a member of the Philippine delegation to the 2014 Australian Political Exchange Council Program.
[1] In October 2014, Lacson boasts that Concepcion is the first town in the Philippines to have drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles, to monitor the local peace and order situation and threats from natural disasters.
[17] In October 2018, in a public hearing conducted by the Environmental Management Bureau of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Lacson endorsed the proposed project of a scrap recycling mini-mill by SteelAsia Manufacturing Corporation.
However, on October of the same year, the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) issued a resolution accusing Lacson of being engaged in illegal drug trade or activity, along with a provincial governor and 22 other city and municipal mayors, stripping them of power through the National Police Commission (NAPOLCOM).
[22] In April 2020, Lacson has prohibited residents of all the town's 45 barangays to go to the public market, supermarkets, and grocery stores to get necessary and essential goods.
He has ordered the municipal police manning checkpoints and control points to allow only business persons engaged in “rolling stores” and vendors or stall renters at the town's public market.
Before he contracted the virus, he was recently criticized for promoting an open-air food park and using face masks in public with an exhalation valve.