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                                                                                                Status of
 Ref                Observation                          Recommendations                   Implementation/
                                                                                          Results of Validation
page     completely submit the August to            monthly        collection     and       and its related
 72      December        2023     transaction       disbursement       accounts     in     schedules as of
         accounts, which is not compliant           accordance with the requirements      December 31, 2024
         with Section 41(2) of P.D. No.             of pertinent laws and regulations.     on February 14,
         1445 and Sections 70, 73 and 110                                                       2025.
         of the NGAS Manual for LGUs,
         Volume I, thus, precluding the
         verification thereof and impairing
         their relevance and usefulness for
         decision-making.
2023     The City utilized only 19.65 per       34) The City exhaust all means to            Unimplemented
AAR,     cent or ₱16,085,381.03 out of the          implement without further delay       Excluding the QRF,
 AO      total     available     funds     of       the projects outlined under the 70      the City had only
No.14,   ₱81,859,875.09 of its LDRRM                per cent Mitigation Fund of the        utilized 64.07 per
 page    Fund as of December 31, 2023,              LDRRM Fund. Also, the                    cent of the total
  75     thereby compromising the City's            unexpended balances of prior          available funds of its
         preparedness to respond to                 years' LDRRM Fund held in                LDRRMF as of
         disasters/calamities and exposing          special trust be utilized upon due    December 31, 2024.
         it to a higher risk of loss of lives       compliance with Section 6 of
         and properties in such an                  NDRRMC-DBM-DILG               JMC
         eventuality.                               No. 2013-1 in order to increase
                                                    their constituents' resilience and
                                                    decrease their vulnerabilities to
                                                    disasters and calamities.
2023     The City has completed only 41         35) The City Engineer improve the           Unimplemented
AAR,     per cent or 19 projects, funded            preparation of project plans by        No action taken by
 AO      from the CY 2023 appropriations            ensuring that all the necessary          management.
No.15,   for the 20 per cent Development            procedures,      especially    site
 page    Fund totaling ₱84,853,037.14,              inspections and surveys, are
  77     with 57 per cent or 26 projects not        undertaken to ensure the project's
         yet started, and did not specify the       viability and to eliminate
         project with an allocation of              unnecessary costs of plan
         ₱14,000,000.00.        Furthermore,        revisions;
         projects with negative slippage
         beyond 15 per cent were not            36) The City Engineer implement             Unimplemented
         addressed in a timely manner,              measures and undertake catch-up        No action taken by
         contrary to GPPB Resolution No.            programs to accelerate work              management.
         05-2019.      These     deficiencies       accomplishments on projects
         resulted in delays in delivering the       undertaken by the administration
         benefits that constituents could           that are behind schedule; and
         have derived from the proposed
         projects.                              37) The City Development Council            Unimplemented
                                                    determine the specific project         No action taken by
                                                    details to be funded out of the 20       management.
                                                    per cent Development Fund
                                                    lump-sum          amount        of
                                                    ₱14,000,000.00.
2022     Discrepancies were noted between       38) The Inventory Committee and the         Unimplemented
AAR,     the book balances and the physical         CGSO           prioritize      the     No action taken by
 AO      count of movable PPE and                   reconciliation of the RPCPPE             management.
No. 1,   Inventories as of December 31,             with the accounting records after
page     2022,        amounting          to         conducting the physical count,         This is reiterated in
 33      ₱40,768,383.69                and          and pinpoint persons responsible      the audit of CY 2024



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