Published by the Bohol CHRONICLE - The Commission on Audit (COA) released last Monday the "missing" supporting document in the 2007 Audit Report which contains the names and figures involving the P6.4 million unliquidated cash advances of city hall officials.
Chairman Reynaldo A.Villar of the COA central offices in Quezon City through his regional office ordered City Auditor Tereista Irig to release the said document after he was informed that the city auditor denied to release a copy of which to Vice Mayor Jose Antonio Veloso who since November 25, 2008 already wrote the city treasurer and City accountant Kurt Bongabong regarding the list of unliquidated cash advances, but to no avail.
The office of the city mayor holds the bulk of the unlquidated cash advances.
City Mayor Dan Lim, P3,000,000.00; Exeucitve Assistant Arlene Karaan, P722,643.41 and City Administrator Walter Toston, P235,715.00 topped in the list released by COA. The total is P6,478,903.46 as of Dec. 31, 2007 .
Vice Mayor Veloso who was persistent in his demand for the list to be released by COA said that out of the P6,478,903.46, some P3.9 million were spent by the office of the city mayor.
"This is the reason why the minority bloc of the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) was denied a copy of said list by the city treasurer and city accountant," the vice mayor stressed.
The unliquidated cash advances list was dated as of Dec. 31, 2007 and duly signed by City Accountant Kurt Adolf Bungabong.
City Kagawad Mariquit Oppus, chairman of the SP committee on accountability, during last Friday's session called for her committee and the committee on appropriations of Kag. Oscar Glovasa to meet this week to look into the multi-million unliquidated cash advances at the city hall.
For his part, Kagawad Bebiano Inting cited COA circular 97-002 which mandates that liquidation be done within 60 days upon return of a foreign travel and 30 days for local travel and all cash advances be liquidated at the end of the year. This is the same ruling as stated in the Civil Service Commission Res. No. 040676.
The two committees will formally ask the city accountant and the city auditor to release an updated of the unliquidated cash advances which cut-off date is Dec. 31, 2008 .
The updated list is necessary since the list released last Monday showed other cash advances which were presumed liquidated since the involved persons have already retired and were given clearances to retire such as former City Kagawad Alberta Torralba and Mario Llyod Guiterrez, former employee of the city mayor's office
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