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                                                                                            Status of
Ref              Observation                         Recommendations                   Implementation/
                                                                                      Results of Validation
2020   Notarial Fees and Documentary 71) The City demand for the refund                 Unimplemented
AAR,   Stamps totaling ₱1,030,424.00           of the total amount of                 The supplier had not
 AO    incurred in the opening of LC to        ₱1,030,424.00 from the supplier        refunded the amount
 No.   facilitate the payment of the           to reimburse the amount paid by        of ₱1,030,424.00 to
 11,   procurement of brand new heavy          the City for the Notarial Fees and           the City.
page   equipment and vehicles were             Documentary Stamps incurred in
 64    shouldered      by     the     City     the opening of the LC, the burden
       Government contrary to Section          of which should be shouldered by
       42.6 of the 2016 Revised IRR of         the supplier as specified in Item
       R.A. No. 9184, Item 4.3 of              12 of the General Conditions of
       Appendix 16 of R.A. No. 9184,           Contract and in accordance to the
       and Item 12 of the General              provisions of R.A. No. 9184.
       Conditions of Contract. The             Otherwise, the payment shall be a
       payment was recorded as an              personal liability of the officials
       additional cost of equipment,           who authorized the said irregular
       resulting in the overstatement          disbursement.
       thereof.     Moreover, the said
       payment was without approved
       appropriation in violation of
       Sections 305 (a) and 306 of R.A.
       No. 7160, thus considered
       irregular expenditures.
2020   Distribution of the ESP through 72) The City, through the CSWDO,                  Unimplemented
AAR,   SAP to the 24 barangays of the          submit the evaluation report on        Management still did
 AO    City could not be properly              the eligibility of the ESP-SAP             not submit an
 No.   validated since the CSWDO               recipients and the encoded SAC         evaluation report on
 13,   neither provided the evaluation         forms.                                  the eligibility of the
page   report on the eligibility of the                                                ESP SAP recipients
 70    recipients nor the encoded Social                                              and the encoded SAC
       Amelioration Card (SAC) forms                                                          forms.
       contrary     to    the    pertinent
       provisions of DSWD MC No. 09, 73) The City conduct a thorough                    Unimplemented
       series of 2020 or the Omnibus           revalidation of the listed              No action taken by
       Guidelines in the Implementation        ineligible beneficiaries.                 management.
       of the ESP.
                                           74) Should the revalidation prove that       Unimplemented
                                               the listed beneficiaries are indeed     No action taken by
                                               ineligible, the responsible City          management.
                                               Officials refund the improperly
                                               provided subsidy to the 35
                                               beneficiaries               totaling
                                               ₱210,000.00, notwithstanding the
                                               inclusion of other ineligible
                                               recipients upon further validation
                                               pending submission of the
                                               aforestated reports from the
                                               CSWD and without prejudice to
                                               the demand for refund from the
                                               said beneficiaries as a matter of
                                               personal recourse.
2019   The City government availed of a 75) Management justify the necessity              Implemented
AAR,   ₱300,000,000.00 loan from Land          of procuring multiple heavy              Management had
 AO    Bank of the Philippines and agreed      equipment given the above               submitted a copy of



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