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                                                                                                                                         Status of
Ref.            Audit Observation                        Audit Recommendation                   Management Comment/Action
                                                                                                                                      Implementation
       and 2012-003, thus resulting to            regulations for the prevention of irregular
       irregular and unnecessary expenditures     and unnecessary expenditures are
       amounting to ₱116,393.85                   observed.

                                              84. We further recommended the immediate          Management still had not taken             Not
                                                  refund of the payments made for the           any action.                            Implemented
                                                  beauty pageants, as these are disallowed
                                                  in the audit.
AAR    The Municipal Government did not           We recommended that Management:
2014   create a new Municipal Solid Waste
       Management Board required under 85. Ensure that the proper mechanisms, like              The 10-year ESWM Plan was                  Not
       R.A. 9003 or the “Ecological Solid         budget and manpower, preferably a full-       completed for the planning period      Implemented
       Waste Management Act of 200”, hence        time Municipal Environment and Natural        2019 – 2028.
       precluding the adoption of a long-term     Resources Officer, are in place once the
       systematic      and     comprehensive      ISWMP is approved to give reasonable          The LGU will appoint a MENRO
       program embodied in a duly enacted         assurance for the enforcement of the plans    Designate to focus on garbage
       Solid Waste Management Plan to             formulated.                                   disposal issue.
       ensure the protection of public health
       and the environment.
AAR    The Municipal Government did not           We recommended that Management:
2014   return to the Bureau of Treasury
       unutilized balances of Priority 86. Instruct the Local Finance Committee to              The LGU did not return the PDAF            Not
       Development        Assistance     Fund     process the immediate return of the           to the national treasury since they    Implemented
       (PDAF), which as of June 30, 2014,         unutilized      PDAF       funds        of    insisted on its legality.
       totaled ₱72,846,900.30, for reversion      ₱72,846,900.30 to the National Treasury,
       to the unappropriated surplus of the       through the Department of Finance, in
       general fund as ordered by the             compliance with the Supreme Court
       Supreme Court in its En Banc Decision      Decision;
       promulgated under G.R. Nos. 208566,
       208493 and 209251, which declared 87. Submit a written explanation why the said          Management still had not taken             Not
       the unconstitutionality of the PDAF,       funds have not been returned despite the      any action.                            Implemented
       thus depriving the national government     SC ruling declaring it unconstitutional,
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