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                                                                                                                     Status of
Ref.            Audit Observation                   Audit Recommendation                  Management Comment/Action
                                                                                                                  Implementation
                                              3. Submit the approved PIP to the Management had already submitted   Implemented
                                                 COA Audit Team within the the approved PIP thru email on
                                                 prescribed period;             01/23/2025, while a hard copy was
                                                                                submitted on 01/28/2025.

                                              4. Conduct the required preliminary The Inventory Committee had not                    Not
                                                 activities prior to inventory taking; submitted any report to the Audit         Implemented
                                                 and                                   Team as proof of the preliminary
                                                                                       activities conducted.

                                              5. Record/document the physical count      The Inventory Committee had not             Not
                                                 daily in a standard ICF prescribed in   prepared any report after the partial   Implemented
                                                 Annex A of COA Circular No.             count was conducted.
                                                 2020-006 dated January 31, 2020.
AAR    Due to insufficient budget allocation, 6. We recommended and Management           Out of the 31 unimplemented                 Not
2023   the Municipality was only able to fully   agreed to plan and evaluate their       projects as at year-end, six            Implemented
       implement 31 out of the 58 projects       priority projects for the year and      remained unimplemented and nine
       programmed       under    the     20%     allocate a budget sufficient to         were reprogrammed to other
       Development Fund (DF), delaying the       complete these projects within the      projects in CY 2024.
       achievement of desirable socio-           target completion period.
       economic        development        and
       environmental outcomes, contrary to
       Section 4.0 of DBM, DOF, and DILG
       Joint Memorandum Circular No. 1,
       dated November 4, 2020.
AAR    Delinquent Real Property Taxes (RPT) 7. We      recommended      that    the      The Municipal Treasurer still had to        Not
2023   and Special Education Taxes (SET),      Municipal Treasurer post a notice of      post the Notice of Delinquency at       Implemented
       including penalties accruing thereon,   the delinquency at the main entrance      the Municipal Main Entrance and in
       which     have     accumulated       to of the Municipal Hall and in a            15     barangays    under      their
       ₱25,952,185.17, remained uncollected    publicly accessible and conspicuous       jurisdiction by the 1st week of
       as of December 31, 2023, thus           place in each barangay of the local       March 2025.
       depriving the Municipality of a         government unit concerned as well
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