Failure to utilize 20% Development Fund and procurement documentation deficiencies
Pulilan · 2022
What Happened?
Category: Procurement and Budget UtilizationIssue: Non-complianceThe municipality did not spend its allocated development budget on most planned projects. It also failed to follow procurement rules, like posting contracts and keeping proper documents. Some corrective actions were not done at all.
Why It Matters
Recommended Actions
- Require the Municipal Engineer (ME) in coordination with the Municipal Planning and Development Coordinator (MPDC) to improve the system of identifying and implementing priority PPAs to provide timely socio -economic benefits to its constituents;
Original Audit Finding Excerpt
"109 PART III - STATUS OF IMPLEMENTATION OF PRIOR YEARS’ UNIMPLEMENTED AUDIT RECOMMENDATIONS There were 12 observations contained in the CY 20 21 Annual Audit Report for which 43 recommendations were offered. As of report date, 13 recommendations were fully implemented , 27 were partially implemented, and three w ere not implemented as detailed below: Audit Observation/ Recommendation Ref. Management Action/s Status of Implementation/ Reasons for Partial/Non- Implementation 1. The reported balance of the CIB -LCCA as of December 31, 2021 amounting to ₱324,474,509.39 was understated by ₱14,164,727.46 owing to the (a) non -reversion of stale/cancelled/unreleased checks to the CIB -LCCA; and (b) unrecognized bank credit and debit memos and other reconciling items contrary to Section 59 of the Manual on the New Government Accounting System (NGAS) for Local Government Units (LGUs), Volume I and COA Circular No. 96-11 dated October 2, 1996. Nonetheless, c"
