On the same day, the acting mayor formally asked City Treasurer Visitacion Acero for the list of the monthly expenditures corresponding to the payment of the wages for the casual employees in 2007 and 2008. He also requested for the list of the current City
Treasurer’s Office (CTO) casual workers.
His letter on this was actually a reiteration of previous requests, but Veloso still made the move for his guidance in evaluating the operation and administrative performance of the treasurer’s office.
Veloso personally met the treasurer, who was to coincidentally retire effective May 26, last Tuesday, since he likewise wanted to see the Statement of Receipts and Expenditures (SRE), formerly the Statement of Income and Expenditures (SIE).
The SRE had not been known to many city officials until the acting mayor got hold of the Department of Finance (DOF) circular on the new format of the financial document.
Requested records were not given to Veloso until Assistant Regional Director Hilda Garsula of the Bureau of Local Finance (BLF) of the DOF made a surprise audit at CTO Tuesday noon for the treasurer’s retirement.
Reports said that on DOF official’s instruction, Acero was forced to furnish Veloso but still a copy of SIE, not SRE, and only the list of CTO casual workers, not together with the list of the 2007 and 2008 monthly expenditures of the casual employment payment, on May 27, Wednesday.
Acero’s SIE copy to Veloso had no signatures of the city accountant and budget officer, who should also both sign the SRE and not SIE - since there should have no longer be SIE - pursuant to the new DOF circular.
In her reply letter, Acero referred the acting mayor to the city accountant for the record of the casual wage expenditures, claiming that after payment by the disbursing officers, all the paid vouchers would be submitted to the accountant for appropriate recording.
The document is vital since it could reflect the list of the 100 or more barangay tanods who supposedly received P12,000 honorarium each for the whole of 2008.
Kagawad Jingo Rama earlier exposed the granting of only P6,000 instead of P12,000 per tanod, even saying that the tanods should have each received P3,050 per month since they were made to sign daily time record (DTR) and, thus, made to appear as casual workers of the city.
As daily time casual workers, the 100 tanods could have received more than P3,000 monthly or over P3.7 million for the entire 2008 instead of only P600,000 for all of them based on the alleged P6,000 that each tanod got for the whole year.
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