However, the amount was not enough prompting the City Council to approve an additional P15 million for fuel.

The City Council approved P130 million budget for fuel last year. The state auditors told Mayor Michael Rama to ensure that the city personnel will comply with the law. The preparation of the monthly report on official travel was also stopped because of the volume of trip tickets required to support its. However, the required reports year 2012 were not submitted to COA as of December 31, 2012, preventing state auditors to properly evaluate the efficient use of the city's vehicles.ĬOA learned that the submission of fuel consumption reports was stopped in March 2012 and onwards because the personnel in charge of the work thought that it was no longer necessary. Â€œThe economical and efficient utilization of motor vehicle is best reflected by the fuel it consumed for the total distance traveled for a particular period,â€ the state auditors said. The COA Manual on Audit for Fuel Consumption of Government Motor Vehicles provides that the use of government vehicles shall be properly controlled and regulated by way of securing first a duly approved Driver's Trip Tickets which should be serially numbered every end of the month.Īside from the monthly report of official travel, the guidelines also provide that the fuel consumption for each of the vehicle shall be submitted for evaluation compared to the distance of the approved travel. This is due to the failure of the city government to submit the required documents to determine the economical and efficient utilization of motor vehicles and the reasonableness of fuel consumption.ĭelia Monte de Ramos, COA cluster director for local government units, said that the officials who have been issued with the vehicles failed to submit the monthly reports of official travels and fuel consumption. CEBU, Philippines - The Commission on Audit (COA) could not determine whether proper usage of the 1,200 vehicles of the Cebu City government is being observed by the officials whom the vehicles were issued to.

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