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A COA official met yesterday with the finance and budget officers of each senator to map out guidelines on how to liquidate Senate funds, including the maintenance and other operating expenses (MOOE).
Mario Lipana, resident auditor of the Senate, said he met with the Senate finance officers following orders by COA chairman Grace Pulido-Tan to implement full liquidation of Senate funds instead of mere certification.
The Senate and the House of Representatives have agreed with the COA chief’s move not to allow the use of certification on liquidation on Senate funds in 2013. This puts to naught Concurrent Resolution No. 10 that allows liquidation by use of certification, a long time practice followed by lawmakers until state auditors called the Senate’s attention to it in 2010.
Lipana said the official COA report on the itemized expenses of the Senate would be published in newspapers of general circulation within the week.
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