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A CEBU City councilor would investigate the about P40 million in unliquidated cash advances incurred by former employees of the City Hall.
Councilor Jose Daluz III said he would ask City Accountant Arlene Rentoza why these employees were allowed to retire or resign from their jobs without liquidating their cash advances.
He pointed out that under the law, “no public employee would be allowed to receive their retirement benefits if they did not undergo a liquidation by the City Accountant's Office (CAO).”
The councilor said he would check if Rentoza had sent demand letters to the concerned former employees as she had promised during the previous budget sessions last year.
He would also check if the CAO sent demand letters to former employees who are already dead as this would prevent any liquidation.
Daluz said he has a list of the employees who failed to liquidate their cash advances but he refused to reveal their names.
There could be two reasons why these employees' cash advances remained unliquidated.
Daluz said one reason could be that the CAO lacked personnel to review all the accounts of the city.
This resulted in the delay in the processing of liquidations submitted by the concerned employees. Another reasons was that these employees deliberately either failed or refused to liquidate their cash advances.
Daluz said he would give the concerned employees a chance to explain. But if they still refuse to make a move, he said the city would be forced to file charges against them.
“It is okay for the CAO to be late in submitting their report. But if the late is more than three months, it is very difficult for us to assess the financial status of the city,” Daluz said.
But because the CAO is undermanned, the city's Income and Balance Sheet Report for 2007 was only submitted to his office last Nov. 11, 2008, almost a year late.
The income and balance sheet would show the financial balance of the city for a specific year. CORRESPONDENT JULLY VENUS CUIZON
