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                    [ArticleID] => 493435
                    [Title] => City welcomes pre-audit by COA
                    [Summary] => 

Mayor Tomas Osmeña and some other city officials welcomed the move of the Commission on Audit to subject to pre-audit all major government transactions because it will prevent government officials from committing violations of state audit procedures.

[DatePublished] => 2009-08-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 57013 [Title] => COA probes graft plaint vs. Asturias barangay officials [Summary] => [DatePublished] => 2008-04-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 347556 [Title] => Mandaue execs call on media to be fair [Summary] => Mandaue City officials have called on the media to be responsible in their reporting by getting each side of the story they are writing about.

This developed as city administrator Serafin Blanco branded as "irresponsible journalism to the highest degree" the series of reports that appeared in local newspapers (not The Freeman) allegedly putting the city in bad light.

Blanco was referring to the news reports about the city officials' unliquidated cash advances and other procurements that appeared in the annual report of the Commission on Audit.
[DatePublished] => 2006-07-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 347195 [Title] => RTC rules Gov has authority to go into service contracts [Summary] => The Regional Trial Court upheld the governor's authority to enter into a contract involving monetary obligations even without authority from the Provincial Board for as long as there is already an appropriation ordinance enacted before.

RTC Judge Geraldine Faith Econg ruled that Governor Gwen Garcia was correct over that of the Commission on Audit in her interpretation of the provisions of the Local Government Code and of the Government Procurement Reform Act.
[DatePublished] => 2006-07-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 346505 [Title] => COA ticks off discrepancies in Talisay's inventory report [Summary] => The Commission on Audit 7 has found some discrepancies in the annual inventory report submitted by Talisay City.

In her letter addressed to Delfin Aguilar-Cluster IV Director, COA 7 Cluster director Helen Hilayo said the "PPE (Property, Plant and Equipment) account is doubtful because of the non-submission of complete Inventory Report-P69.09 million."

This letter dated May 30, was submitted after the COA officials ended its discussion on the city's financial report.
[DatePublished] => 2006-07-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 327793 [Title] => COA clarifies its exec did not incur salary disallowance [Summary] => The Commission on Audit yesterday clarified reports that one of its officials incurred a salary disallowance as reported the other day.

Helen Hilayo, who is currently the Regional Cluster Director of Sub-Cluster 2 (Cebu), Region 7, Local Government Sector was reported to have incurred a salary disallowance of P660,945 for the period of July 2005 to December 2005.
[DatePublished] => 2006-03-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 327615 [Title] => COA issues disallowance to Mandaue VM, councilors [Summary] => The Commission on Audit regional office has issued a notice of disallowance to Mandaue City Vice Mayor Amadeo Seno Jr., members of the Mandaue City Council and two other department heads for the overpayment of their salaries and 13th month pay amounting to almost a million.
[DatePublished] => 2006-03-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 286238 [Title] => Rehab center head, COA, city officials meet for fact-find conference [Summary] => The Office of the Ombudsman Visayas has summoned Cebu Center for the Ultimate Rehabilitation of Drug Dependents director Pablo Apolonio along with officials of the Commission on Audit, Cebu City accountant and councilor Augustus "Jun" Pe Jr. for a fact-finding conference on the absence of proper accounting of the facility's sources of income.

A notice for the fact-finding conference was received yesterday by Councilor Pe, who is the chairman of the council's committee on drugs task force.
[DatePublished] => 2005-07-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1239309 [AuthorName] => Cristina C. Birondo [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 286114 [Title] => Suliran sa rehab center gihisgutan [Summary] => Mipatawag og tigom ang Visayas Ombudsman ngadto sa mga opisyal sa siyudad sa Sugbo, kapolisan ug mga state auditor sa Commission on Audit (COA-7).

Tumong sa maong konperensiya ni Deputy Ombudsman for the Visayas Primo Miro pagtuki sa mga kakulian ug suliran sa Cebu Center for the Ultimate Rehabilitation of Drug Dependents kon (CCUREDD).
[DatePublished] => 2005-07-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096643 [AuthorName] => Darrel Carumba [SectionName] => Banat Balita [SectionUrl] => balita [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 284932 [Title] => No word yet from COA on perks for brgy intel [Summary] => The legality of the planned financial benefits for members of the barangay intelligence networks of the city's mountain barangay could not be ascertained yet. This after officials of the Commission on Audit said they could not give their opinion on the matter, which was raised following the proposal of Association Barangay Councils president Eugenio Faelnar. "Dili lang mi mohatag og opinion anang isyoha kay aron dili ma-preempt ang among trabaho unya," said Helen Hilayo, COA director for local government in Central Visayas, adding that their job is only to conduct post-audit of government tr [DatePublished] => 2005-07-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097538 [AuthorName] => Rene U. Borromeo [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) ) )
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